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Originally Posted by Biff
I always quite appreciated this comment from the Jodie Foster movie "Contact".
"Our job was to select someone to speak for everybody. And I just couldn't in good conscience vote for a person who doesn't believe in God. Someone who honestly thinks the other ninety five percent of us suffer from some form of mass delusion."
I understand that lots of people don't believe in God. I object to those who cannot afford me the same courtesy because I DO believe in God. It is unfortunate that some cannot talk about faith or religion without inserting perjorative and condescending editorializations into their arguments. I am a reasonably intelligent, resonably well-educated and generally intellectual person...and I believe there is a God. The last does not invalidate the former.
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Good stuff Biff...funny you pick Jodi Foster, an openly devout Atheist.
A quote from JF re the movie Contact:
From: The Georgia Straight, Interview with Jodie Foster by Dan McLeod, July 10-17, 1997; page 43.
Q. Where does Jodie Foster stand in the debate between science and faith?
A. I absolutely believe what Ellie believes - that there is no direct evidence, so how could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.
On an HBO special report interviewing the characters of the movie Contact Matthew McConaughey said he did believe in god just as his character did in the movie, however Jodie Foster said she did not believe in god and had no religion. She stated that science comes closest to finding the truth.
Noone is suggesting Christians or any other theist is a dunce Biff. I know extremely intelligent Christians and Muslims...but thats within their choice of profession. Atheists dont object to theists per se...if theists kept to themselves and didnt push their choice(s) upon the public you wouldnt hear a peep from us. For two thousand years Christians have told us Atheists are heretics and murdered, burned at the stake and ridiculed us at every turn.
Not to long ago this famous discussion:
Sherman: What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are atheists?
Bush: I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community. Faith in God is important to me.
Sherman: Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?
Bush: No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?
Bush: Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists.
If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?
David Feherty