My fiance is religious and I've met quite a few fundies that she knows. They are all good people... the problem comes when the decide to convert you and refuse to accept no as an answer.Originally posted by Bridge
You either really like em or you really don't like em.
I know a few that are actually decent people.
Originally posted by Persol
My fiance is religious and I've met quite a few fundies that she knows. They are all good people... the problem comes when the decide to convert you and refuse to accept no as an answer.
But when not trying to convert people they are GREAT individuals. Faith gives some people a little extra 'something' which is probably the best argument for religion.
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other.
Is it just my preception on this or are the majority of people who seem to be the most bitter at fundamentalists (ism) are also the ones who have been brought up in and are actually from families who are still fundamentalists?
Or weak people easily influenced ...Originally posted by Bridge
Evil things are done by evil people, even when they believe they're behaving righteously and doing it for God.
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
(Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate physicist)
If you hear voices in your head and talk about your invisible buddy, you're a nutcase. If the voices in your head tell you that certain people are evil and deserve to die, and your invisible buddy is infinitely large and can do EVERYTHING, you are a religious fundamentalist.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
-- George Carlin
Actually, no.Originally posted by Bridge
PS: do you ever catch yourself saying "thank God I'm an atheist"?