I think my sarcasm comes from frustration these days; folks think you can have a building without its foundation. We grow ideas from assumptions, and societies grow from those ideas. You can have people who dissent from the assumptions and still work fine as a whole, but once you dispense with the assumptions on the whole, your foundations crumble and the next thing you know your house is falling down around your ears.
Whether you believe in it or don't, ultimately you can't have America without certain fundamental theistic values as part of the culture, and you can't really get the "values and social integrity" without the religion--and enough people adhering to it to make it the norm.
And I wish more atheists would be aware that the more you push your belief that God is a made-up fairytale bearded spaghetti skyfairydaddy, and demand to suppress anyone expressing any other opinion, the more you undermine that foundation. Why else do you think the Left has been taking a jackhammer to the entire First Amendment with such enthusiasm?
Look, you can check my post history for the years I've been here, the ONLY time I ever mock religion is when a religious person needs to a reality check. There is a particular attitude and it's rare, but it's the "I've been given a divine understand of things you mere mortal could never hope to obtain. Religion is perfect, never errs, and if you cant see that you're simply lost, my child."
It's times like these I cant help but point out the ridiculousness of it all. Now, state your opinion, keep the condescending holier than thou bullshit to a minimum, and practice your values far more than you preach them, and we're never having words about it. In fact I'll die to defend your right to believe and practice your faith because that's what I believe in as an American, and I know who I'd want to spend the rest of my life with... it ain't lefty atheists.
That's what I'm saying.
I think my sarcasm comes from frustration these days; folks think you can have a building without its foundation. We grow ideas from assumptions, and societies grow from those ideas. You can have people who dissent from the assumptions and still work fine as a whole, but once you dispense with the assumptions on the whole, your foundations crumble and the next thing you know your house is falling down around your ears.
Whether you believe in it or don't, ultimately you can't have America without certain fundamental theistic values as part of the culture, and you can't really get the "values and social integrity" without the religion--and enough people adhering to it to make it the norm.
And I wish more atheists would be aware that the more you push your belief that God is a made-up fairytale bearded spaghetti skyfairydaddy, and demand to suppress anyone expressing any other opinion, the more you undermine that foundation. Why else do you think the Left has been taking a jackhammer to the entire First Amendment with such enthusiasm?
Look, you can check my post history for the years I've been here, the ONLY time I ever mock religion is when a religious person needs to a reality check. There is a particular attitude and it's rare, but it's the "I've been given a divine understand of things you mere mortal could never hope to obtain. Religion is perfect, never errs, and if you cant see that you're simply lost, my child." It's times like these I cant help but point out the ridiculousness of it all. Now, state your opinion, keep the condescending holier than thou bullshit to a minimum, and practice your values far more than you preach them, and we're never having words about it. In fact I'll die to defend your right to believe and practice your faith because that's what I believe in as an American, and I know who I'd want to spend the rest of my life with... it ain't lefty atheists.