I am cautiously optimistic about people overcoming fears, prejudices and ignorance, as the evidence becomes overwhelming in the recent, ummm, 400 years.
I am optimistic that we can continue to conquer human greed and injustices, though it has been a bloody road in the east and of course in the Southern U.S.A. Many wonderful "spiritual types," agnostics and atheists for example have joined together as civil humans doing the work for progressive causes on this planet, without demanding people commit to their beliefs in order to get eternal life and avoid hell.
It is very difficult to argue with brainwashed people, but I am optimistic because I have personally met a few who were badly damaged by fundamentalism as children who were able to make choices and get therapy as adults that brought them out into the light of reason.
Perhaps you have argued with a Scientologist or even a schizophrenic. Relativistically speaking, this is exactly how it is for a non- religious secular humanist person to talk to a fundamentalist Christian or Muslim etc. Of course I won't give up on folks like you -- so that future generations, whether they choose to go to a church or not, can live under more light of reason and less darkness of fundamentalism.
Your other question. <<Why should I accept the imposition of YOUR dogmatic, philosophical and yes, religious viewpoint, on MY children?>>
You don't have to accept anything except following the laws created under our government of of men and women. Science is the absence of dogma, in the foundations of the scientific process itself which apparently you cannot comprehend. You choose to psychologically abuse your children in order to "save them." Sick. |
