> Heavens to Murgatroyd, can't you people *think*?
Better than those who "feel" and go on "faith," I'll wager.
>Not "equivalent to," analogous to.
Nope. "Mythology" is not insulting, nor does it imply moral wrongness. "Perversion" does.
Woudl you be *slightly* more offended if the class topic was "Creationists, Baby Rapers and other Perverts of That Caliber?"
> However, science types also seem to be unable to perform the type of abstract thinking that is necessary to solving certain classes of problems.
True. Only an artist could have dreamed up the Holocaust. And I guess only a seminarian could have come up with the reality that was the Stalinist utopia.
And only a failed minor-league player for the Yankees could have turned Cuba into the socialist paradise it now is.
And only an actor could have delivered the line "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" with such conviction.
Cheers!
"Better than those who "feel" and go on "faith," I'll wager."
You'd lose.
"Nope. "Mythology" is not insulting, nor does it imply moral wrongness. "Perversion" does."
Case in point. It is blindingly obvious that it is gravely insulting to label a person's religious faith "mythology." I don't know what could account for your statement except bigotry or an inability to think.
"Woudl you be *slightly* more offended if the class topic was "Creationists, Baby Rapers and other Perverts of That Caliber?"
Actually, no, because that is so extreme that there's little danger of it being taken seriously.
"True. Only an artist could have dreamed up the Holocaust."
Really? Mao outdid the Holocaust four or five times over. Was he an artist? How about Mengele, was he an artist?
"And I guess only a seminarian could have come up with the reality that was the Stalinist utopia."
It would be more reasonable, to the thinking man, to say that only an ex-seminarian who had rejected his faith and become an atheist could have come up with the reality that was the Stalinist utopia.