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Originally Posted by Flashpoint
Unless they are wrong. And I don't mean subjectively, I mean factually incorrect.
A man believes he can fly. And is about to jump off a building. Is calling him stupid, or suicidal, or ######ed a high level of intolerance?
No, it isn't. He is wrong. And if he lands on someone else, he is going to hurt them, as well as himself.
And if he wants his beliefs given equal respect as the so called "law of gravity" in schools, then you are going to see exactly how intolerant I, and every other rational educated adult out there can be.
Religon has less immediate impact than the aforementioned "Mr. Crater", but praying isn't going to help global warming any, now is it?
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Terrific, but here's the issue, and I could be wrong and I apologize if I am. And again to clarify I'm possibly debating on the opposite side of this debates from my true feelings, but then again I might not be.
But when we talk about religious beliefs, I'm not seeing people who believe in the bible disputing things that are undebatable facts. No one is trying to debate the laws of gravity, or that fire is hot, or that the combination of sperm and egg makes babies, there's no debate on that. But when people start debating religion, they tend to believe that people in the book are so ignorant that they don't believe in common proofs (fire hot, man can't fly).
Is creationism a silly premise, maybe to me it is, but to me if I believe in god, then possibly I believe that he kick started the whole chain of events due to the possible randomness of the initiation of life on this planet, and that at the moment, there is no direct proof of intelligent life evolving in our own galactic neighborhood.
The lumping of all people who have deep religious beliefs as extremists is the thing on this board and in society in general is what I have problems with, and it goes without saying that people with extreme religious views that don't respect people who don't share that viewpoint falls into the same problem area for me.