I’ll take all comers. Just gets tiring hearing about how I’m mean for calling out their hate, because they phrase it nicely. That’s not a hard argument, but it’s a very boring one.

Creationists are way more fun to argue with. They also tend to be massively repellent to everyone who isn’t a total moron/asshole. Unfortunately, seemingly decent (this is, have some shred of empathy) people are often duped by the “softer” bigotry found above.

It’s almost as if the meaning of words is important when attempting to clearly express an idea. No matter, your evasions have at least served to express that you aren’t an intellectually honest person anyway.

Good people cherrypick good stuff, bad people cherrypick bad stuff, degrees in theology are about as useful as degrees in homeopathy.

If that’s the case, then “transcend” was a silly choice of words. By all means, continue will the false equivalences though.

I prefer the latter group. The former is usually convinced that their bigotry isn’t really bigotry because they’re more polite about it, it gets a bit masturbatory.

Faith: Pretending to know things that you don’t know.

Cognitive dissonance, with a touch of Stockholm syndrome, and some really lackluster critical thinking skills.

Not much point in fearing your imaginary friend. Because, you know, he’s not real.

Right? I’m also an atheist, and I pretty strongly detest religion and how it effects society. I just don’t see how getting the government involved in internal church affairs is supposed to help anything. The first amendment protects me too. I don’t want to gut it. We’re winning the argument anyway.

It’s a balancing act. It has always been a balancing act. Allowing them to murder people, or otherwise go around committing major criminal offenses is not covered by religious freedom. Doing so would place an excessive burden on the rest of society, and generally be bad for nearly everyone.

This must be why our founders were such committed secularists...

uh...I don’t think that’s how the constitution works.

I don’t get it either. Seems like an extra layer of dissonance on top whatever was needed in order to believe in the first place.

Disappointing, but hardly surprising.

The government is no less involved in your hypothetical. Changing the wording accomplishes nothing.

The book says all sorts of shit. Some of it decent enough, some of it evil, a lot of it crazy, and none of it divine.

Stay classy, shitheads.

What baffles me about stuff like this is not that people behave badly. Shitheads gonna shithead, and we just have to do our best to build legal and social systems to limit the damage. The part that I don’t get is that so many people just straight up admit (or in our president’s case, brag) to doing/believing…

Right? I’m there now. It’s kind of a blow-off job, bad pay, boring work, no real prospects for advancement, just a regular paycheck.