Why can't we all just...get along?
I don't fucking care what you think about what I think! Like it or not, lack of faith requires just as much faith as faith itself, just placed in science instead. Like it or not, science and faith can be peacefully reconciled, and if you would just LISTEN to the idea of guided evolution instead of jumping down my fucking throat for answering YOUR FUCKING QUESTION, life would be so much nicer!
I am not a preacher. I don't push my religion on anyone. If I offer an opinion and it's faith based then that's what I'm doing. I'm not out to convert anyone. Finding god is something that has to be done on its own.
I was once an aethiest. I was once convinced there was nothing beyond sheer luck in the evolution of intelligence. I now think otherwise (and yes, I still believe in evolution, just GUIDED evolution, but that's all beside the point...)
The thing aetheists don't understand is that for all their bitching about having to put up with religious nuts, they are just as bad for pushing their views on others. I can't even begin to make a remark remotely spiritual in nature without hearing "how can you believe in something like that? It makes no sense! There's no evidence! blah blah blah..."
Case in point: Steve Clarke came by work today and mentioned he was going to take his family to see Passion of the Christ, and then Janet, instead of keeping her preachy mouth shut, immediately launched into her tirade about how there's no evidence that Jesus ever actually walked the earth, that even if he did he could have been just a nut who was deluded thinking he was the son of god, and all this other aetheist shit.
The fact that some people don't believe in Christ doesn't bother me.
The fact that some people get pissed off being preached at about it doesn't bother me. I hate getting preached at myself. I would much rather discover for myself.
But don't start telling me I'm WRONG. Don't start pushing your point unless you have a point other than trying to show me the error of my religious ways. I don't mind being told your opinion when I ask for it (and even when I don't), but if you ask me a question and I answer it, don't fucking jump down my throat and start telling me I'm an "idiot to believe in a fanciful novel like the Bible". ESPECIALLY when you ask my opinion on something. Why the fuck would you ask for my opinion and then start blasting it before I get more than a few words out of my mouth?
Why are the aetheist's the only ones who need to be free from the persecution of preachers? Why are they allowed to bitch about people preaching at them when they do the same?
Science needs to be recognized as a religion. A religion of empirical data, but a religion nonetheless.
Oh well, I guess it all comes back to that same dumb question.
(Imagine a good Jack Nicholson ala Mars Attacks voice here)
"Why can't we all just...get along?"
I am not a preacher. I don't push my religion on anyone. If I offer an opinion and it's faith based then that's what I'm doing. I'm not out to convert anyone. Finding god is something that has to be done on its own.
I was once an aethiest. I was once convinced there was nothing beyond sheer luck in the evolution of intelligence. I now think otherwise (and yes, I still believe in evolution, just GUIDED evolution, but that's all beside the point...)
The thing aetheists don't understand is that for all their bitching about having to put up with religious nuts, they are just as bad for pushing their views on others. I can't even begin to make a remark remotely spiritual in nature without hearing "how can you believe in something like that? It makes no sense! There's no evidence! blah blah blah..."
Case in point: Steve Clarke came by work today and mentioned he was going to take his family to see Passion of the Christ, and then Janet, instead of keeping her preachy mouth shut, immediately launched into her tirade about how there's no evidence that Jesus ever actually walked the earth, that even if he did he could have been just a nut who was deluded thinking he was the son of god, and all this other aetheist shit.
The fact that some people don't believe in Christ doesn't bother me.
The fact that some people get pissed off being preached at about it doesn't bother me. I hate getting preached at myself. I would much rather discover for myself.
But don't start telling me I'm WRONG. Don't start pushing your point unless you have a point other than trying to show me the error of my religious ways. I don't mind being told your opinion when I ask for it (and even when I don't), but if you ask me a question and I answer it, don't fucking jump down my throat and start telling me I'm an "idiot to believe in a fanciful novel like the Bible". ESPECIALLY when you ask my opinion on something. Why the fuck would you ask for my opinion and then start blasting it before I get more than a few words out of my mouth?
Why are the aetheist's the only ones who need to be free from the persecution of preachers? Why are they allowed to bitch about people preaching at them when they do the same?
Science needs to be recognized as a religion. A religion of empirical data, but a religion nonetheless.
Oh well, I guess it all comes back to that same dumb question.
(Imagine a good Jack Nicholson ala Mars Attacks voice here)
"Why can't we all just...get along?"