Posted on 11/13/2007 8:07:51 AM PST by NYer
I think it may be a good idea. A lot of people are naive about the tactics used by the homosexual/gay rights movement. A bright rights movement may possibly make those tactics more transparent to some people.
Atheism? That’s so gay...
I am and we are...
I think that the term “theophobe” best describes Dawkins.
Oh boy - almost direct quotes from some of our Darwinist-obsessives here!
No wonder that so many Americans say they are opposed to evolution. They believe that evolution is atheism masquerading as science, and Dawkins confirms their suspicions.
LOL - that is going to leave a mark. Get ready for Darwinists demanding to know what D'Souza's scientific training is, and how many peer-reviewed papers he has written.
I think that most gays are atheists, so this would make a gay atheist, a two-fer.(two affirmative action credits for the price of one) What it would really do is enlarge the gay lobby to include hetero-sexual atheists and give them a legal stance that they can use to advance the gay agenda (separation of church and state). Even though the separation of church and state is a bogus regulation, it has a national precedent that is lacking in gay rights.
Can we just get rid of the tired “this is the new this” line as if everything is an analogy to fashion?
“Nothing like painting with a broad brush.”
Yep, the brush covers all. We all have lungs and we all believe in God; however, some admit the truth and others deny it.
Basically, they're both the same class of living Straw Man Arguments, and equally useless to the discourse as a whole. Anyone using them to make a point is usually just muddying their own point.
I don’t deny what people say and write. What they say and write is not necessarily the truth of what they believe when the heat is on. Belief in God is an innate characteristic of sentient humans. Animals are incapable of fathoming God. Purporting to believe in the spontaneous generation of life is about as old as believing in God.
>>”Bright” kind of reflects the high opinion that atheists have of their own intellectual abilities.<<
Except they are not very smart at all. Every single “atheist” that I have challenged on his/her faith has eventually admitted they were really agnostic.
Wanna see how a real atheist would live? Watch Natural Born Killers.
Indeed. Antoninus has a great line for atheists:
"Tell me what you believe in without using the word God."
Turn their philosophy of negation into one of affirmation, and watch rationality disintegrate.
I am not aware that atheists are particularly oppressed, actually. They are certainly free to have all the steamy bath-house sex they want. Or am I confusing my liberation movements here?
Of course there’s a difference. You would never ask an atheist whether your new end table would go with the drapes.
God resides in everyone, atheist or not. You either accept this fact, or deny it. It’s not like believing in Santa Claus.
“I don’t believe in a god. Further, I don’t abandon my atheism in the face of danger.”
Like I stated, I have heard it all said before. IMO, only lower life-forms are true atheists. As a scientist by profession of the last 3o years, the stunning complexity of what life is and the keyhole of where it fits in an interdependent living planet, surrounded by an interdependent universe is beyond the bounds of my comprehension how an intelligent being could believe in spontaneous generation.
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