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In reply to the discussion: Think Again: The religious mind-set [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)58. From the OP, reads like statement of fact
ONE AREA where the divide between believers and nonbelievers stands out boldly is in response to tragedy whether at the hands of nature or man. The religious believer tends to use tragedy as a spur to introspection about himself and his society and as a means to work on his relationship with his fellow man and with God. He lives in a world rich in metaphor and filled with hints as to how to improve his own behavior.
The nonbeliever, raised on the Enlightenment confidence in unaided human reason, is far less likely to look within. While he may pay rhetorical lip service to the need for national stocktaking in the wake of tragedy, he does not mean himself. That stocktaking is for the purpose of identifying the villains and coming up with new laws to restrain them.
The nonbeliever, raised on the Enlightenment confidence in unaided human reason, is far less likely to look within. While he may pay rhetorical lip service to the need for national stocktaking in the wake of tragedy, he does not mean himself. That stocktaking is for the purpose of identifying the villains and coming up with new laws to restrain them.
This person is analyzing someone he's never been, an unbeliever, and presenting his baseless suppositions as fact.
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Haul in your own. It most certainly is what he is saying, and he says it openly.
Squinch
Dec 2012
#27
Radical cruelty is eminently thinkable to the religious mind, and always has been
toby jo
Dec 2012
#2
NO, the Storm is over the essay's negatives on atheism as compared to religion--
Moonwalk
Dec 2012
#25
if you don't read hateful posts, you will save lots of time in good old "religion." nt
Thats my opinion
Dec 2012
#31
Get back to us about all the research and statistics and documentation
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2012
#46
Try discussing something, rather than posting pointless one-liners
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2012
#51
I guess there is no way for theists to discuss the fabulousness of religion without
djean111
Dec 2012
#37
Probably some merit there, the problem is your lack of consistently applying it to both sides.
eomer
Dec 2012
#52
The Lawd saved me while all my neighbors perished, wise and mighty is the Lawd
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#32
Not having been a fundamentalist, I'll have to take a pass on what you consider a True Christian™.
rug
Dec 2012
#43
rug, do you see the religious mind-set as being as right wing as that?
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2012
#39
A religious mindset, not being a political mindset, isn't caharcterized as right or left.
rug
Dec 2012
#44
The article is highly political (and right wing), but titled 'the religious mind-set'
muriel_volestrangler
Dec 2012
#45