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honest answer: I'm optimistic enough to think that it gets better slowly and I don't think it would matter what I do so I'd rather just not champion a cause
I mean if I talk to someone about religion then I won't be all "yes yes this all sounds good" but there's no reason to get vicious about it
in the end, I don't really care what people believe
*sprays with water*
actually I'm advocating not introducing them, not doing away with them
I dunno what kind of world you live in where this kind of thing is okay
it sounds like a bad place
you miss the point
you can provide all those things without mockery and without being a douchegoose
Oh and by the way, he tortured a load of guys in the KGB.
What a guy.
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Like Scientology, Sikhism, the Moonies, Rastafarianism, etc. You know, the ones that are still alive and well today.
Or maybe you are talking about pseudoscience like crystals and shit that are still popular.
maybe you should talk about how you actually do accept it, that you are going to humor him as you humor your dad, first
even if you don't
This is literally how I became an atheist. At a young age I realized that people thousands of years ago were wildly unreliable witnesses to events, even if their observations survived perfectly translated and unbiased to today (which also is not true, but is a slightly weaker, more deniable point).
you put sikhism beside scientology. Uh, okay.
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This morning I saw a link for sexy ladies wearing batman shirts. I'm sure you can find it yourself if you want.
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I was just using them as an example of fairly recent religions.
I think I just looked at it and thought Christianity was kind of stupid around that age.
Crazy European people with their crazy state religions with churches nobody attends but are still the state religion for some reason.
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It's unrealistic to expect that effective techniques for performing science will be at all effective for promoting science; in fact, we have ample evidence that trying to promote science via reasoned engagement doesn't work very well. Anti-scientific proponents of vaccine-avoidance or evolution-denial continue to gain the mindshare of a significant and powerful segment of the voting population that "better evidence" has been unable to sway.
You have to be willing to also be the side that shouts louder and takes the cheap shots; these are time-tested, evidence-based methods for effectively capturing peoples attention. They are 100% science-backed promotional methods that the pro-science crowd, perversely, rejects.
And that's a deeply un-scientific attitude. Many, many people believe what they hear first and what gets shouted loudest. Not liking that fact, and therefore refusing to engage in those tactics, doesn't make it any less true; it simply cedes a large segment of the population to anti-science proponents who are willing to do what it takes to get their message heard.
hahahaha
I always hated going to church.
And the ‘well that’s just their opinion man, leave them be’ – leads to the simpering mess that is the democratic party.
So are you United Atheist League or Allied Atheist Alliance?
yeah holy crap
And while rastafarianism may seem like a kooky personality cult it is not an engineered one like scientology or moon's church
Priceless
Sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office there was a vaccinate your child commercial. Infants of dying of whooping cough. WHOOPING COUGH. That's the kind of illness that was rendered pretty much a silly name and now it's killing people. I'm glad my sister is siding with medical science for her kid, because not too long ago that's the kind of thing she'd latch onto.
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because people don't care
it's kind of annoying
people aren't christian
what people will say is like "I believe in god, I think, but not like the stuff in the bible"
or something even more wishy-washy
Nerd you do realize he has been linked to actual murders right? He's former KGB and not a very nice person at all.
http://exterminatorsassistant.blogspot.com/
shut up
that's all real, sure, but wrestling bears and fishing for salmon with his hands and all of that is a series of a fairly silly publicity stunts
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I think the pro-science crowd, when rejecting those methods, is doing so with a long-term goal in mind.
Those methods work because people are generally poorly educated and reactionary. I would think that continuing those methods just because they work right now would reinforce the behavior that they'd rather discourage.
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Wait, what?
No. Why am I being told to shut up?
Wel it's not even atheism per se. Proper organised christianity is rather good at stopping the more kooky beliefs as well. A cardinal is going to tell you to fuck off with your ghosts idea.
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We are referencing the much better Life of Brian instead of that South Park episode, right?