Woman on CNN tells Wolf " um i am actually a Atheist"

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150. Sincerity?

Sincerity? I won't even begin to tell you how utterly insulting that is for anyone to preface knowledge with a control mechanism that contradicts the search for knowledge and truth itself. The very staement "sincere curiosity" is insincere and manipulative.

I, as an atheist, am more sincere about the search for truth and the reality of existence than Thomas Aquinas, C.S. Lewis and hosts of others that have fallen for or have used the fatal idea of sincere curiosity as an instrument of torture and degradation of the human mind and spirit throughout history.

One is either curious or they are not. The above mentioned were never curious about truth or knowledge. They were justifying their dogma, steeped in centuries of myth and mental instability, securing it with the threat of death whether it be hell, physical or mental.

Tainting the vulnerable with being "sincere" about whether they can see what they are supposed to see... is insulting.

edit: and if this is all you have to unburden yourself of the responsibility for your beliefs, and the thought relieves you of your responsibility to us as humans, you are deluding yourself.