Making Light: All Religions are UPG

[cbayer]

22. It's a lot like it, IMO.

You are on a discussion board taking a pretty rigid position and stating that you are right and everyone who thinks differently is not just wrong, but irrational, illogical, poisonous, gullible, deluding themselves and exhibiting flawed thinking. It comes across as a very "one way" type of thinking.

Nothing wrong with skepticism. I have a great deal of regard for it. I also have a great deal of regard for those believers whose faith leads them to do good acts, work for social justice and promote civil rights.

I'm not buying your explanation about the link at all. You called it a "common knowledge" source, although it is certainly not common knowledge that demonic possession is a true phenomenon. And it's certainly not a "common knowledge" site. Of course some religious people still explain scientifically proven events as supernatural phenomenon. For example, there are way too many people in this country who believe in creationism despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, but there are also many religious people who fully embrace evolution.

BTW, there is a growing movement in the evangelical community who have made global climate change one of the primary causes. Their religious interpretation is that the earth is a gift from god and that they are responsible for caring for it.