Irreverence isn't bigotry, because ideas and beliefs are not people.

[lazarus]

74. actually

none of what you have just said in this post accurately reflects reality, as I showed in my previous post. I am dealing with equivocation, however, it's yours.

Here it is again:

humblebum
39. I consider atheism to be extremely narrow-minded, narrowly focused, and generally

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one that assesses and evaluates every other point-of-view from that same extremely narrow perspective. For that reason I feel that giving any respect to such a mentality is misguided, and potentially dangerous as history demonstrates.

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40. I'd love to see examples of this danger, so I can demolish them with evidence...

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what I find fascinating is the concept of "narrow-mindedness" as you define it being so, well, narrow. Accepting the evidence and fact is somehow a narrow perspective.

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humblebum
41. The "positivist" method or "logical positivist" or 'logical empirical method", each of which

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can be used to describe much of atheistic reasoning, are human constructs, purposely "invented" to eliminate any form of religious, metaphysical, intuitive, a priori, etc., types of reasoning.