Religion
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Moostache
(9,895 posts)I started writing a long treatise on why Christianity is offensive as a religion, but I erased the whole 2,300 word screed and leave you with only this:
The OP and likeminded individuals should leave science to the scientists and take up your cross with Ken Hamm, Kent Hovind, and the rest of the YEC clamoring claptrap of inanity. Your true quibble is with them anyway. Science and Religion are (to steal from Gould) "non-overlapping magisteria". There is no nexxis of intersection and to use either to validate the other is a disservice to both.
This is also true of scientists already. There is no convincing the literalists and fundamentalists of anything - they are a total loss; and the good natured people of faith at least those that I have known and wish to continue to associate with, have no need for external validation of their beliefs....they are in no need of 'converting the lost' or 'preaching the word'. Their beliefs give them hope and peace and that is enough, as it should be for all.
Religion is like a penis. It's OK to have one, and great to be proud of yours...but keep it out of public view and away from children, period.