In fact, let me go a step further and suggest you avoid arguing atheists altogether, in any forum.
I’ll tell you why: atheism is an indefensible superstition.
It is a flamboyantly false belief clung to desperately by only the least imaginative and the most emotionally partitioned of people. ...
Atheism is only, and ever was, an emotional argument.
[T]he superstition that the budget must be balanced at all times, once it is debunked, takes away one of the bulwarks that every society must have against expenditure out of control. . . . [O]ne of the functions of old-fashioned religion was to scare people by sometimes what might be regarded as myths into behaving in a way that long-run civilized life requires.
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
The Stupid! It Burns! (don't argue with me edition)
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When you first hear about psychological projection, it sounds like one of the nuttier Freudian ideas that would have been discredited by now.
ReplyDeleteBut, I've lost count of how many theists I've seen say stuff like this, and it can only be called textbook projection.
Hardly a projection, gentlemen. It is rather a simply tally of those men who hold certain belief in certain orbits.
ReplyDeleteNothing more complicated than that.