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In reply to the discussion: How can religious moderates be said to enable hateful fundamentalists? [View all]dmallind
(10,437 posts)16. What piffle
Science is not used, even by idiots, as a justification for belief. Your own silly example is ass-backward. Eugenecists' beliefs were concerned with the desirability of an artificially guided humanity. Science is a tool for that belief, not a focus of it. Do you think eugenecists would have eschewed creating this race by other means were they somehow available? Told a wizard "No! You can't make us all Aryan archetypes by waving a wand - we insist on painstaking genetic decoding and splicing!"
Science is to such beliefs as basalt blocks are to practitioners of human sacrifice upon ziggurats. A tiresome and difficult necessity to do what you really believe in, but bugger all to do with the object of belief or justification for it.
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How can religious moderates be said to enable hateful fundamentalists? [View all]
trotsky
Apr 2012
OP
You either didn't read or didn't understand your own "rebuttal". It makes my point perfectly!
dmallind
Apr 2012
#34
Thoroughgoing religious liberalism in no way enables fundamentalism.
E_Pluribus_Unitarian
Apr 2012
#20
That's a gigantic caveat you just tried to tack on innocuously at the end there!
trotsky
Apr 2012
#43
Of course, I never said they couldn't. So bully for the brilliant dispatch of that straw man.
trotsky
Apr 2012
#46
So given the fact that groups of freethinkers/skeptics/atheists and individuals gave their open
humblebum
Apr 2012
#58
I was not aware that the Constitution had any teeth outside of the Unites States, and
humblebum
Apr 2012
#61
Christianity has been reforming for two thousand years and continues to reform
Leontius
Apr 2012
#74
Making heavy use of helicopters painted in the color black, I'm sure.
2ndAmForComputers
Apr 2012
#76