I will freely admit that I did not read all four pages of posts here. theres just to much for a noob to go through. Intolerance is intolerance. Superiority is superiority. What is being done with this "new atheism" is not much different IMHO than what pro-lifers do with their cause when they blow up an abortion clinic. Tell me your more tolerant because you don't hate a musslim just for particular book he reads, but that you are better than him because he chooses to read that book and believe what is written in and you dont and you are saying that your way is right and other ways are wrong. I really don't see the difference. I don't want to offend anyone, that is always the last thing I want to do. Please if you can really tell me how it is different for you to say that your better than someone else because you can back up what you believe with facts than for me to say that I'm better than someone else because I can back up what I believe with faith and commitment to that faith? Either way the statement is being made that, "my way is the best way because <insert claim here> and any other way is ignorant."
I'm hearing the exact same words used to support both religion and atheism. And the words are "Because I'm right."
Thank whatever that we don't all have to believe the same thing. thank whatever that we have the option of choosing for ourselves how we want to think. I don't even want to do the research to find out exactly how many people over the last 250 (minus a few) have died so that we could be that way. Noone has the right to tell me that I cannot believe lin fairies and unicorns if I want to. I DO want to. I'm a little to logical to actually be able to, but I try whenever I can
. Noone has the right to tell me that I can't. I just pray to all the unicorns in Avalon (might be getting my myths mixed up there, don't want to take the time to research it) that they never will have that right.