tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post8448477885852285790..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: Secularism and Anti-Religious AtheismLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-64542509478433053882007-03-18T14:06:00.000-06:002007-03-18T14:06:00.000-06:00"I am anti-religious. I do in fact consider religi..."I am anti-religious. I do in fact consider religion to be not only false, but malignantly false. I don't consider all (or even most) religious people to be evil, but I do consider all of them to be mistaken in a way that does in fact promote evil to some degree."<BR/><BR/>Spot-on! But extremely difficult to convince the Panglossian people who only want to see the best in everything, even when they don't believe it themselves.<BR/><BR/>I'm old enough to remember, as a child, all the complacent people in the 1930s who said Hitler wasn't such a bad chap really. Thank goodness we had Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt then - not bombastic Bush and self-deluding Blair.<BR/><BR/>Keep up your good work!anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.com