[Nameless]

How is he not a zealot? He seems to be saying that unquestioning belief in a Bronze Age religion (Updated in the Iron Age by a charismatic leader) is a qualification for the highest court in the land. Maybe you believe that there is a grandfatherly old gentleman who lives in the sky in a place called "Heaven" and has magical powers, but I don't. What percentage of people scoring two standard deviations above the mean in standardized IQ tests share his and Miers belief system? Back in the Bronze and Iron ages, respectively, both aspects of this religious tradition were cutting edge and represented great advancements in moral reasoning and religious thought, but they don't stand up to the accumulated empirical knowledge we have now.

[Siena Dreaming]

So every christian is a zealot? Man, you may think you're smart, but you still have a lot to learn.

I think you better stop thinking of God as a "grandfatherly gentleman in sky" and rather consider that he is also a extremely harsh judge who has ALL power and can snap you in two in one millisecond.

Go ahead and enjoy your two seconds here, but you better think about what's coming after that.

[Warren_Piece]

How is he not a zealot? He seems to be saying that unquestioning belief in a Bronze Age religion (Updated in the Iron Age by a charismatic leader) is a qualification for the highest court in the land. Maybe you believe that there is a grandfatherly old gentleman who lives in the sky in a place called "Heaven" and has magical powers, but I don't. What percentage of people scoring two standard deviations above the mean in standardized IQ tests share his and Miers belief system?

Just Damn.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"they don't stand up to the accumulated empirical knowledge we have now."

Careful. Many times man has gone out on their own on a path and realized that they have ended up where they started. The difference between spirituality and religtion is embracing and trusting the unknown and attempting to understand the unknown. Science grew from the latter but that doesn't mean that spirtuality diminishes. God gave man reason and free will to choose his destiny(even Einstein knew this). Some goats are just too smug to realize this. The 2nd law of thermodynamics touches on this and one can surmise from there, if they are not jaded by the number of books they have read.