And Here I was About to Mellow Out
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| "Which one of the following statements come closest to your views about the origin and development of human beings? Humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process. OR, Humans developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process. OR, God created humans pretty much in the present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so." | ||||||
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| God Guided The Process | God Had No Part | Created In Present Form | Other (vol.)/ Unsure | |||
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| 3/28-29/07 | 30 | 13 | 48 | 9 | ||
48% of America: there is no excuse for this. "God guided the process," the perfect reasonable compromise, compatible with all kinds of Christian theologies - MOST OF IT, in fact. Tolerant. Somewhat thoughtful. Passably cognizant.
Yet your commitment to self-blinding, willful ignorance is stronger. At least, in the aggregate, it isn't getting worse.
posted by JAB at 10:55 PM
3 Comments:
Hey, ignorance is power -- if you're a religious leader. I'm just happy they are drawing the line at convincing people that the sun revolves around the earth, like they used to.
It's funny, lately I've been in a charitable mood, thinking "Religion's an OK thing. If it gives folks comfort, then more power to 'em."
Then someone reminds me "Hey. These idiots often want to limit other people's access to knowledge, medicine, drugs, pre and post marital sex, abortion, free speech, hot man/man or girl/girl porn and heliocentric views of the cosmos."
Sigh.
When I was younger I dreamed someone would invent a drug that would put people into a mental state where they could be converted to any religion.
I dreamed that this would signal the end of religion, when folks realized that faith was just another mental state and there was nothing mystical about it.
Now that I'm older, this is more of a nightmare.
I've realized that those who hold sway over their followers would just use it to convert everyone, regardless of the moral, ethical or even religious considerations.
So having swung towards a-theism (belief there is no supreme deity), I'm now starting to swing back to my original anti-theism (active dislike of religion) roots.
Just today in the local campus center there was a Students for Christ booth.
My first thought was a competing booth, with the following, albeit a bit self-defeating slogan:
Students For Atheism. We don't have a prayer.
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