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This was written in response to this article on Salon, titled: "Atheists’ self-defeating superiority: Why joining forces with religion is best for non-believers"
I'll jump right into what I think about this article, line by line: "I’ve written before about the root causes of religious conflict — in a nutshell: it is not about what many people would like you to think it’s about " This is just funny to me: that someone might sum up religious conflict using the phrase "It's not about what many people will try and make you think it's about" - which is a pretty strange way of putting it. And if I'm honest, no serious secular humanist would sincerely say that we "want" anyone to think anything in particular - we don't care what you think anywhere near as much as we care about /how/ you think.
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Emotions are a tough thing.
They arise seemingly from nowhere, and take control of your mind in ways that, after the fact, sometimes seem illogical or even insane. And sometimes, those emotions are the wrong emotions to be feeling. Just because you feel an emotion, doesn't mean that emotion is you - you have no control over where emotions come from or really, which emotions you feel at any one time. Once you become aware of an emotion, you can then interact with it - and our conscious mind can take steps to curb and change the emotion that one feels to one that might be more appropriate. None of this is to say that we are better off feeling no, or even moderated amounts, of emotion - emotions are powerful tools that remind us what we value and how much we value it. But sometimes, we have emotions that we don't want or inappropriate - or sometimes even, just plain wrong. Take homosexuality - and homosexual marriage in particular - and it's strange controversial status. To me, thinking rationally, there is no question that allowing gay marriage is something that have simply should have always been. There is no logical reason to deny anyone that right. But somehow, people still do. And why is that? Because when they think of two people of the same gender getting married, they feel fear. Fear that their belief structure is no longer true, and no longer valid. There can be no other reason to be continue to be a Conservative in this day and age. |
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