About the effects of really, really bad education (from an answer to a friend)

[fpb]

Most British are not Christian and have been socialized to hate and fear what they call "organized religion". This does not make all of them atheist: but the number of ranting, proselytzing, fanatical atheists is remarkably high. Two out of three of the Sorry Trinity, Hitchens and Dawkins, are British. What it does do is make them amazingly

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[wade_scott]

I know those kinds of obsessive atheists. I was badgered by one on a friend's lj, and he was a born-and-bred American. Seems to me there's a difference between atheists and anti-theists and they are all over.

I don't know if it's due to "bad education" or just the need to find something fulfilling in life. Like fundies who are so obsessed over their Jesus that they need to harass other Christians over various points of doctrine.

repeating without imagination

[johncwright]

My guess: What they get out of repeating without imagination days weeks and months of the same tired non-arguments is self-congratulations. They think they are Paladins of Reason slaying the Dragon or Superstition

Re: repeating without imagination

[fpb]

All of that I grant you. But you have to remember that you were at least capable enough to be able to recognize a sound argument from a fake one. Thanks to the bad education in Britain, especially where religion is concerned, we have a generation of people who cannot tell the difference.

[headnoises]

Y'know... I never even thought about what theology Jack Chick came from?

Honestly, I took him to be such a bad example of ANY belief system that I didn't even consider it-- despite having an aunt who loves his little booklets.

Now I'll have to look into his theological underpinnings....

Not sure if I should curse you or thank you....