Religion
In reply to the discussion: On science, scientism, and the limits of scientific inquiry... [View all]SamG
(535 posts)religious believer uses the "I'm better than you are and I'm not going to bother to deal with you anymore" excuse.
So Typical! So arrogant. So insulting!
So predictable!
LET'S PUT THIS VERY SIMPLY: I have no problem with people doing good things while they live on this planet, many people do, most do it with some religious beliefs. But one should do good things on this planet not based upon religious beliefs, but based solely upon their values, their training, their love of their fellow human beings.
So far, I have seen no actions by "progressive liberal" religious people in the last 12 years that brought about results on a major scale. By contrast, I have seen hundreds of thousands of actions which brought about restrictions and actual denial of rights, denial of medical care, denial of human dignity to millions of people in the US and around the world.
Here is just one more example, some one who states
YUP, we all know when we have been denied our dignity based upon religious beliefs... this is just one example.