Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: one_less who wrote (79770)	12/27/2003 3:53:01 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

You are exposing a rather fanatical hostility and a mindless obsession. Take a breath for pities sake... Atheism is the thoughtful choice to avoid choosing between countless supernatural superstitions. It is the intellectual recognition that all the fanatics who rage against one another and who slaughter one another relentlessly for "God" are terrible examples of the effrontery with which the mindless and the gullible seek to impose their conceit upon the world. Atheism and theism are friends. Neither has a dogma or a creed. Atheism is the choice to rely on observation, experience and reason as a guide to truth. While the theistic choice to lean toward an unproven assumption of a First Cause invites neither disrespect nor hauteur. Both atheists and theists of reasonable bent are aware that human virtues and vices exist in people independent of their superstitions--or yet their scientific grasp. Compassion, attachment, and service to family, friends, and community do not depend on superstitious dogmas; nor is it likely that such immanent qualities are overmuch hindered by the garden variety of religious infatuations. I would think that no rational atheist would ever be opposed to a benign theism. We would more likely be charmed by such a child-like attachment to mystery and wonder. Your attempt to create a moral chasm between ordinary people of understandable and unremarkable difference of opinion speaks to your obvious need to display a moral superiority. Thus does the dogma unite with the man. Few have the courage to be lean. The masses binge on comfort foods of the mind. They feast on the baklava of indulgence and moral convenience. It is a culture of intellectual obesity.