Dawkins Is Wrong. Religion Is Rational

[Moonwalk]

119. By that logic, all the people told that they were inferior because of....

...their race, sex or religion should think about believing it. I'm sure you are up in arms against societies that tell women they are inferior, that education is wasted on them, that they should obey men, that they should cover up and be escorted every where, that if men rape them, they are at fault,dishonored, and should die. These are beliefs, honest, strong beliefs that certain cultures hold, and both men and women believe them to be true. SHOULD all these women take all this as true simply because so many people believe in them? Should all women have "Checked for that tail" because so many men claim that rape is their fault?

See, that's the problem with thinking "Maybe it's true" simply because enough people believe in it. Without seeing if it really is true, you may end up ruining your life simply because you trusted what others said was true...without considering the fact that maybe it isn't. Maybe this is what they want to be true. They want you to have a tail, to not be equal to them, human, worthy of certain rights. So they believe otherwise, and they would love to make you believe it too and save them the trouble of having to prove they're right--and likely failing to do so, thus taking away from themselves a belief they really, really want to have.

If it weren't for people NOT trusting what others believed, if it weren't for people looking at the evidence instead and saying, "That's not true no matter how many people WANT it to be true...." then Jim Crowe laws would still be in effect, women wouldn't be able to vote, own property or work at any but the lowest jobs, gays would be imprisoned, killed, lobotomized, etc.

So here's the question for you: Why do you bring up the fact that so many people believing in god proves something when if someone brought up that so many people believe women are inferior you would argue that this proves nothing? Why does belief in god get a pass when it comes to "many people believe, must be true" but other things, things you oppose like bigotry and inequality, don't get a pass when it comes to "a great many people believe"?