[PetroniusMaximus]

"Those who live by superstition lower themselves to the animal level and negate the very reason for freedom."

You infer those who disagree with you are "animals" who believe in "fairy tales" and you still can't see they tyranical nature of your ideology???

[orionblamblam]

> You infer those who disagree with you are "animals" who believe in "fairy tales"

Two points:

1) What are they, if not animals? Plants? Minerals? Robots? Sorry, but humans *are* animals. Primates to be a bit more precise.

2) Do you have a problem calling, say, a Wiccans beliefs in the supernatural "fairy tales?" Do you think that someone who refers to an animst as having fairy-tale beliefs is somehow being "tyrannical?"

[Ed Hudgins]

Hudgins -- "Those who live by superstition lower themselves to the animal level and negate the very reason for freedom." -- Hudgins

Reply to Hudgins -- You infer those who disagree with you are "animals" who believe in "fairy tales" and you still can't see they tyranical nature of your ideology???

Hudgins reply -- I should say "lower animals." And since it is our minds, our rational capacity, our capacity for conceptual knowledge reached through a rational process, and our free will that allows us to exercise that capacity that distinguishes us as humans and separates us from lower animals, when we abrogate that rational approach to knowledge in favor of lame superstition, we DO turn our backs on those most wonderful attributes that we should celebrate, that are the glory of being human, for a self-imposed stupidity that is sickening to see.

My error: Since birds can't intentionally break their own wings and cattle can't intentionally refuse to graze and lions can't intentionally refuse to hunt, we are morally worse than lower animals when we refuse to think, refuse to exercise the means by which we survive and flourish.