Organized Religion is Failing the Gay and Transgender Community

[MellowDem]

45. It was the impersonal "your"...

and here's the quote:

Basically, your position on god is no more credible than the hateful bigot's position on god.

Sorry for the confusion, it was just pointing out that one theist's position on god is no more credible than another's. Which is why the details of the position were left out. They're irrelevant to the point.

Yes, intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance are human nature, but they are generally symptoms of something not good when people resort to them, IMHO. The fact that it's so rampant on the topic of religion in the developed world, whereas with any other topic people would easily point it out, makes it all the more potentially harmful since religion is given a pass by many when it comes to logic and reasoning. Intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance are the primary defenses of people and society to the many failings of religion, if they have decided to keep religion around (of course, the main defense would be just dropping it altogether).

If I tell you I subscribe to a belief system that has a heirarchy that decides these beliefs and very clearly laid out beliefs, and then I tell you that I don't believe some of those clearly laid out beliefs, that's cognitive dissonance right there. What do you think makes it not? How is it not intellectually dishonest? Especially all the poor reasoning used to try to explain away the contradictions in one's own thought process. They go hand in hand with each other.

My goal is to advocate for a healthy way of thinking and against a harmful one. No more, no less.