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Off-topic: Climbers who believe in Jesus 5-Feb-2011 At 10:51:32 AM cleftintwain

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On 5/02/2011 widewetandslippery wrote:
>I think theists are mentally ill in an infectious leper kind of way and
>should be locked into assylums, given electro shock and lobotomies and
>left to rot.

I think that's a tad harsh. Upon reflection I will often concede that people are the sum of their experiences and admit that were I born into a theistic household, community or society, then chances are I would be a card carrying member of some OTHER brand of dogmatic ideology.

I emphasise OTHER in order to show that I think us atheists are often dogmatic in our own ways. I'm not perfect however I work very hard every day to examine the assumed pretenses of my ethical framework.

I've given up trying to ratiocinate people out of their religious or mystical beliefs. Lately the religious types frustrate me a lot less than the new age mystics given that most religious people tend to lack rational justification. New age "what the bleep", "quantum mechanics" !@#$tards on the other hand believe that the world of quantum physics gives credence and even proof to the validity of their brand of spiritual "mumbo jumbo" (to steal the words of Michael Shermer).

I will leave it there as my goat is stirring.

Cleftin.