Dad lets daughter drown in Dubai so she's not 'dishonored' by male lifeguards' touch

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171. Yet criticism of this kind of pre-human barbarism

and discussion of REASONS IT EXISTS, are "bigoted" and cannot be expressed in polite public.

It's as though saying that polio was caused by a virus cannot be mentioned just because the virus didn't kill everyone it infected and some were fortunate enough to not catch it.

Three hundred years ago women were burned as witches when crops failed or epidemics broke out because people did not understand weather, plant or human disease, simple bad luck, and other causes. Now we have a scientific understanding of these things and the "witch theory of causality" has been abandoned, at least by the civilized world.

Choosing to believe bullshit for which there is absolutely no extrisic evidence is a abdication of the reason that has taken billions of years to evolve. It is, as Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg said, a disgrace to humanity.

Wanna argue? Go argue with Weinberg.

Or Steven Pinker, or Michael Shermer:

"Over time it has become less acceptable to argue that my beliefs, morals, and ways of life are better than yours simply because they are mine, or they are traditional, or because my religion is better than your religion, or because my God is the One True God and yours is not, or because my nation can pound the crap out of your nation.. It is no longer acceptable to simply assert your moral beliefs; you have to provide reasons for them, and those reasons had better be grounded in rational arguments and empirical evidence or ese they wll likely be ignored or rejected."

M. Shermer, The Moral Arc, p.3 (emphasis in original).

And belief in a supernatural skydaddy because the "holy book" (written entirely by humans) says he exists is as a matter of logic in no way discernably different on any level than citing Action Comics for the existence of Superman.