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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (45857)	3/29/2002 7:22:04 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Perhaps the more education you have, the more open minded you become, because you have been exposed to so many competing ideas, and the more secular this makes you. I had always assumed that was the case but, since Neo gave me an opening, I wanted to hear what he had to say. I also think there's a psychological aspect to it. I know that bothers Neo as he has always taken exception when I mentioned it, so I'm interested in seeing his response to Dithers.

To: epicure who wrote (45857)	3/29/2002 7:55:00 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

And Dithers thinks atheists and agnostics have big egos? Undoubtedly, a well researched opinion... <g> The fact is that even a little reason is incompatible with ideas wholly ridiculous and illogical. This principle ought to, at the least, give those with even a little learning a clean slate--a slate uncluttered by the primitive ideas that informed the superstitious thinking of our distant ancestors. This would leave the "god part of the brain" to invent modern fancies not wholly incompatible with basic sense. Curiously, however, there remain educated people who seem entirely unable to comprehend the world without they have rendered it incomprehensible by their denial of reason and sense.

To: epicure who wrote (45857)	3/29/2002 8:20:14 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Hmmmm, talking about Dithers I see, ladies.... My religion does not condemn people for having other beliefs. Neither do I. I am nominally a Catholic, which raises quite an element of irony when you talk about a church condemning ... don't you think? So much talk goes on as to whether one religion or another "has it right." Personally, I don't see what difference that makes. If one finds comfort and an inner sense of belonging in a particular religion, and its teachings accord with one's own views about a good and moral life, what is to be gained in perseverating over whether its theology is correct?

To: epicure who wrote (45857)	3/30/2002 12:08:31 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Or it may be that people with less secure beliefs feel the need to explore the world more in a desperate search for some meaning in their lives, which is why they become perpetual students, while people with fulfilling spiritual lives feel no such need. Okay, it's just a theory. But I do get a wee bit ticked as this perpetual stereotyping of religious people as less intelligent or educated. Another one of those cases where something it is totally forbidden to say of race (think the controversy over the Bell Curve!) it is perfectly acceptable to say of religion.