Re: Just as a bye-the-way

Posted by Russ Abbott on Mar 23, 2012; 5:31am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Just-as-a-bye-the-way-tp7397553p7397691.html

Doug, I don't want to pick on you, but your certificate strikes me as indirect bullying.  

I'm as atheistic as they come, but I know a number of people who (for reasons that I don't understand) take religion quite seriously.  They are intelligent, pleasant people, not the sort to rub their beliefs in anyone's face. Most are politically left of center. One has a bumper sticker that reads "A proud member of the religious left".

Why pick on them? I'm sure you don't intend to. I'm sure you are making fun of the Rick Santorums of the world. It's just that by casting as wide a net as the Flying Spaghetti Monster does, it also makes fun of everyone with religious feelings. 

The answer someone like Sam Harris would give is that what they say is either false or without any shred of objective support. But the people I'm thinking of don't go around proclaiming their beliefs as The Truth. They go about their business simply wanting to experience the world through a different lens. The fact that I don't understand it -- and I don't; I'm completely mystified by their way of thinking about certain things -- doesn't give me the right to ridicule it.

Sorry for the rant.

 

-- Russ

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Douglas Roberts <[hidden email]> wrote:

Don't want my FRIAM friends and acquaintances to be the last to know:

If you feel like getting married, I can now conduct the ceremony.  

"With this rigatoni, I thee wed, etc."

 

-Father Doug

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