the God delusion

[slash_reine]

What an incendiary title for an innocuous post.

"The most general expression of the danger being addressed in this puzzle is that if people base their moral beliefs - that is, their beliefs concerning how they should treat others and themselves - exclusively on an authority's voice, they run the risk of carrying out some highly immoral deeds and

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[binkeepinky]

I think I know how that philo frustration feels.

I always feel this oppressing obligation to be nice and smile nervously at the opponent even though I'm trying to logically deconstruct the pillars of their spiritual existence at the same time because(like you mentioned in a later post featuring Douglas Adams) religion is, for some bizarre reason, this safety barrier that you MUST NOT TOUCH (although you may prod at it superficially) if you wish to escape the cirticism of the politically-correct. D:

[slash_reine]

Precisely! What makes it worse is that because religion is so personal, whatever you say is taken as a personal attack on the character and intellect of the person who holds that particular religious view, and in a sense, that's unavoidable, isn't it? What you believe inevitably reflects upon your rationality.

If you haven't read The God Delusion, you must! (:

[binkeepinky]

I'm going to borrow it from the library tomorrow!

[slash_reine]

haha awesome! I still have the one from the school library though - lent it to Nancy, and the only other one left there is a hardback edition O: