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Originally Posted by cellophanedeity
It's when people use their faith to defend their moral choices and metaphysical beliefs when I get more annoyed.
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You're preaching to the choir. It would be great if the legitimacy of a claim to the moral high ground required the concurrence of religious beliefs and sound philosophy, and I personally characterize those people as spiritual, in the most complementary sense. If everyone shared your view, I have no doubt that we'd all get along much better. Unfortunately, "religious" people (i.e, those who on faith accept their religious texts as the literal and irrerant word of their deity), could care less about the soundness of their reasoning, simply because it's irrelevant to them...for those folks, scripture will always trump philosophy. Because of this, and with all due respect to irateplatypus, religion and philosophy ultimately mix about as well as oil and water.