eric, i bow to your wisdom, in re-reading i see your reference.

@kogoodidleft: well, since it’s been around a lot longer than you, i’m sure it’ll stick around longer than you will, too. If you don’t believe it, and don’t want to believe it, don’t trouble yourself with it.

Notice i said attack, criticism and mockery is all well and good. If you cant laugh at yourself, what reason is there to laugh?

You’re proud to be an American. Good. I’m glad. The quote is indeed religious. However, in this country you don’t have to believe the same as everyone else. You are just as entitled to think colored people are inferior. You are just not allowed to act on that feeling. You are entitled to believe whatever you want. Do you feel threatened that some people believe in a god or afterlife? I am proud to be an american as well, and it forces me to beg the question: how much longer can your intolerance last?

I get a sense of relief that the life I live is worth something beyond what i make of it, because i screw it up, and if life and my entire existence was based on only what i make of it, i’m sorely disappointed. But that’s about all i get from religion.

I agree we need to limit the influence religion has. We also need to limit the degree with which the government can regulate religion. It’s not a perfect world, and it’ll probably never be, either. But hey, it’s better than being forced into religion by the government, isn’t it? The reason for the pilgrimage to the americas? Big step up, i’d say.

As to the court-room situation, i can see how that would go, probably gave all involved a good laugh. Hell, i laughed just thinking about what may have happened.

I have plenty of athiest friends, catholic friends, mormon friends, buddhist friends, and even a hindu friend. We all get along, you know why? No-one pushes their religion on another. In fact, I’ve probably showed more religious zeal here than i’ve shown in real life. LOL.

“racist douchebaggery” I take it that by this statement you are not in favor of racism? That’s good. However, you show yourself to be just as ignorant and bigoted as those who cannot see a person for who they are and are instead focused on their color, their language, or their religious beliefs.

Legitimizing intolerance is the first step to a world that would have looked pretty dang good to any of those men in the pointy white robes, or even to nazi germany. Heil reboot?

*amendment to opening statment* choose as they believe in regard to religion.

“Should flat-earthers be mocked and shamed for their deliberate ignorance? You bet, that’s free speech.”
yes, that is free speech, but so is yelling fire in a crowded theatre. There are restrictions to your free speech just as there are to mine.

“You have to systemically deny 150 years of successful science in order to discredit the theory of evolution.” by the definition of the word theory, to which evolution ascribes, it has not been proven. While I am not saying you are wrong for believing it, I personally refuse to. I picked a different theory.

“It’s beliefs and choices that I don’t respect, you still have all the dignity afforded to a human being. I’ve been very careful in all my post to keep that distinction.” I believe the same, and if I have in any way failed to make the same distinction, i apologize.

“For instance, you might be a nice, friendly person and I respect that.” I believe, if we had met in person, we would probably have become drinking buddies.

Putting “God did it” is not an acceptable answer (to me) for any question that should be asked in school. Since evolution is only a theory, as is every other explanation of the origin of the earth, it should not be taught. Nor should creationism. Proven mutations/evolution, processes that have been re-created according to the proven fact, can, and in fact should, be taught. [this is only in a science class, i would not expect a civil war to be re-created to validate its veracity].

I in no way want my beliefs to hamper or hinder your life. However, if i might ask, how does a belief other than yours affect your personal life? I am not so vain as to think that everyone in the world must believe the same as i do, and so knowing that other people have separate beliefs in no way does me harm. Having a “world origins” class [or segment] in any but a college campus is, however, unacceptable.

The situation must be different there than i have experienced here, and in some few other places. But to each his own, i am glad of opinions such as yours, to provide myself with definition for mine own opinions.

Sounds like a plan, I’ll prolly be up there sometime in ’08, got a friend that loves warp tour, but wont go anywhere else but Seattle.

I do it because i’m bored at work and have restricted internet access. And it gives perspective on why other people behave the way they do. As well, it firms my own beliefs by bringing to light just why I believe something.