ericmurphy
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The only real problem I have with religion is that most followers of religion believe that their worldview is the only correct one. Most religions (at least most Western religions) seem to pretty much demand that stance.
A consequence of that belief is that, necessarily, everyone (like me) who subscribes to a different worldview must necessarily be wrong.
Now, I don't particularly mind if someone thinks I'm wrong about something. It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong about something. But this need to correct my worldview is where I run into problems with religious people. I frankly couldn't care less (my arguments with AF Dave notwithstanding) if a religious person thinks God created the universe 6,000 years ago, a global flood wiped out almost all living creatures 4,500 years ago, and that God personally cares whether I masturbate or not. That's fine; they're certainly entitled to whatever goofy beliefs they want to have.
But when they try to enforce that belief system on me (and by extension, the rest of whatever society they happen to live in), that's where the sparks fly. The only reason Intelligent Design was ever a problem was because it was an attempt to circumvent the courts and get the fundamentalist Christian worldview forced down the throats of unwitting schoolchildren.
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2006 MVD award for most dogged defense of scientific sanity
"Atheism is a religion the same way NOT collecting stamps is a hobby." —Scott Adams
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