Comments | lil_shepherd: Greta Christina Strikes Again

lil_shepherd

Greta Christina Strikes Again

Nov 26, 2009 17:54

If you get annoyed by atheists debunking religion do not click any of these links. If you do and they annoy you, don't come complaining to me. The wonderful Greta Christina ( http://gretachristina.typepad.com/ ) writes about religion and atheism in a way that is so close to my own ( Read more... )

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sebastienne November 26 2009, 19:00:10 UTC

ooh, that was very interesting, thanks; reminds me of why I gave up on organised religion a decade or so ago after realising that nobody else thought it was just a nice metaphor...

lil_shepherd November 26 2009, 19:42:17 UTC

Greta Christina writes about atheism, sex, and politics. What more can you ask?

lukadreaming November 26 2009, 20:19:12 UTC

Thanks for the link -- I've bookmarked Greta Christina's blog for future reference. She says everything I want to say, but a million times better *g*. I want to run around and hand out the URL to every god-botherer I come across!

lil_shepherd November 26 2009, 20:21:55 UTC

I know.

Isn't she wonderful?

lukadreaming November 26 2009, 20:23:04 UTC

She sounds extremely cool -- I had a nose around at her biog and her past posts.

rdmaughan November 26 2009, 21:55:53 UTC

Personally reading the second link made me want to go join a church and I'm an atheist. Not that it suddenly made me a believer but I just disliked what I was reading so much I wanted to distance myself from the writer.

Possibly I'm overtired and cranky tonight.

lil_shepherd November 27 2009, 06:34:35 UTC

There you go. I thought she was spot on. The excuse that "even if religion is not true you ought to respect it because it gives meaning to [the hoi poloi's] lives makes me very angry because of the way it denigrates people, particularly believers.

madfilkentist November 27 2009, 14:10:56 UTC

Advocates of religion often claim that invisible voices are the only way to arrive at valid principles of how to live. They even seem to think that deceptive invisible voices (i.e., other religions) are superior to reason-based ethics. Polls in the US show that more people would refuse on principle to vote for an atheist than for a follower of a "false" religion.

steamshovelmama November 27 2009, 15:54:32 UTC

Thanks for this - you post such interesting links! I've bookmarked this for further investigation.

(Loved the Trekkie metaphor! So true on so many levels! *g*)