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Warren Stupidity

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11. It is a form of mental illness.

Reply to Scuba (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 23, 2015, 07:42 AM

Oct 2015

We all seem to recognize that when the group is an outlier or does something astoundingly awful, like Jonestown or ISIS. When the group is instead evangelical christians we get all antsy about the implication.

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Dawkins Tells Fox News It's 'Disgraceful' That GOP Presidential Candidates Believe In Creationism [View all] cleanhippie Oct 2015 OP

If they actually believe in "creationism" they are ignorant morons. ladjf Oct 2015 #1

Good chacterization of creationist motivations... DreamGypsy Oct 2015 #4

Most Americans have access to scientific data undreamed of 100 years ago. ladjf Oct 2015 #6

They've been brainwashed since they were in diapers. Is that "mental illness"? Scuba Oct 2015 #2

Some think so. cleanhippie Oct 2015 #5

It is a form of mental illness. Warren Stupidity Oct 2015 #11

And also disgraceful that the good Dr didn't call out Trump Goblinmonger Oct 2015 #3

But the sad truth is that no politician salvages them for it Yorktown Oct 2015 #7

"If they believed what they did... trotsky Oct 2015 #8

Exactly. It's like the difference btween a cult and a religion... cleanhippie Oct 2015 #9

Again let's compare to Christianity. trotsky Oct 2015 #10