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Originally Posted by Dion
When you trumpet your own belief and then trash another in the same post it comes across as holier than thou. My opinion of course.
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I did not think that I trumpeted my own belief.
I'm open to the origin of everything sprang from some god-like supreme force only in the sense that I can't disprove it. I don't think it's necessary to use a miracle as a placeholder for the questions that science hasn't answered yet and I'm sure that it's dangerous. The problem with it is that it's not enough for most people to simply believe that a miracle set nature into motion. They feel it necessary to define that miracle and then pretend that they're made in it's image and it loves them and it roots for their country in wars and cares who they have sex with and in what position.
I'm not arguing that you have to hate anyone for their beliefs. Just that you shouldn't feel the need to respect their beliefs just because it's what they believe. Mostly everyone I know is religious and I not only like but adore most of them. It's just that respecting their beliefs is a little too close to validating them. Irrationality is a dangerous thing in this world whether you're talking about God or not. When you have something as powerful as religion that demands the suspension of reason, it leads to awful things happening to lots of people.