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MeTa post:
Are some more worthy of respect than others?
Maybe I'm a little defensive, but atheism's past stance of staying in the closet and not confronting religious zealots has me in a country where atheists, in a hypothetical Presidential race with women, blacks, homosexuals, and other groups that are typically targets of hate, still come in last
To be fair, atheism has been burned into the public consciousness by the likes of O'Hair.
The recent contribution of well-spoken... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 8:21 PM on February 17, 2008
All, even most, believers are not like Fred Phelps or the teevee brigade, at all.
Analysis of the polling I've seen disagrees with that assertion. Modern-day megachurch political rather extreme polarization toward the Republican Party and its difficulties understanding and supporting the theories of Evolution are two datapoints here.
From what I've seen, the non-judgmental, liberal church has been fighting a rear-guard action... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 8:34 PM on February 17, 2008
Of some Christian faiths? Yes. Of Christianity as a whole? No.
Of Mainstream Evangelical Christianity in the U.S.?
Yes.
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 9:32 PM on February 17, 2008
Different Christian denominations simply cannot be conflated into one.
Thing is, you can certainly tranche them.
Looking at the dynamic, growing denominations you will find great commonality in political polarization toward the erstwhile "Party of Life", muscular millenialism toward Israel, get-rich-though-prayer, hostility toward evolution, secular humanism, etc.
These trends have been... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 9:44 PM on February 17, 2008
It is not the responsibility of all people whose faith falls within the enormous category of "Christian" to either defend or justify the specific and narrow beliefs konolia espouses.
I certainly agree with this, but I think you are mistaken when you minimize the footprint of modern-day Evangelical Christianity in the US today.
Evangelicals were one of Bush's top demes in 2004, coming in just behind the Hassidic Jews... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 9:53 PM on February 17, 2008
Are you answering bigotry with bigotry? Does that make you the monster too?
Bigotry against others is the unfounded antipathy/criticism one directs.
I think modern-day Taliban-esque radical muslim society is total crap. This is no doubt bigoted, but as long as it is true I could give a fuck.
That konolia's public policy positions so closely line up with the Taliban's shoud give her, and her ilk, pause.
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 9:57 PM on February 17, 2008
You can be a fundamentalist but not an evangelical
That would be the conservative Catholics like Mel Gibson, plus the Fantastic Five (?) Opus Dei members on the SCOTUS.
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 9:59 PM on February 17, 2008
Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito could be. Kennedy, probably not but who knows.
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 10:06 PM on February 17, 2008
obstinate and unenlightened attachment to a particular creed, opinion, system, or party
The OED is wrong then; I consider your above "chauvinism".
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 10:08 PM on February 17, 2008
there's strong evidence of Scalia and Alito being members.
and given that Scalia brought Thomas into the Church, and that Thomas is Scalias little shadow ideological pal, it shouldn't be surprising. That leaves Roberts to make 4, which given the circumstances of his appointment shouldn't be too controversial to assert that the probablity of him also being Opus Dei is certainly non-zero. That leaves Kennedy, which is why I put the question mark there.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 10:24 PM on February 17, 2008
I don't see what part of "invisible man in the sky" wouldn't apply equally to Quakers and Dominionists alike.
The central difference is that the Quakers aren't basing public policy decisions on what said man-in-the-sky is recorded to have decreed what our laws should be. It's not the Quakers who have campaigned to put the Ten Commandment marble sculptures on public land and in the courthouses.
The Quakers'... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 11:39 PM on February 17, 2008
me & my monkey
I agree I went oblique on your original point, but, if we could return to C_D's original slam that partially prompted this meta:
fucking pedantic invisible man in the sky weren't such an asshole
you can see it was in context of konolia bringing her faith bases directly into the converstation [about the "Grace" as a possible alternative to "luck"].... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 12:43 AM on February 18, 2008
LOLXTIANS
for the the stupid things they believe, the stupid things these beliefs make them do, and how they force their unfounded, irrational beliefs onto our society as a whole.
That's not religious criticism, that's criticizing religious people for their jerkwad actions, same as criticizing 20th century Eugenics movements not necessarily for their science but for their inhumane actions.
If a tenth of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 3:16 AM on February 18, 2008
MeTa post:
MetaFilter's Own Physics Quandary
If the plane moved forward at all then the experiment was a failure, because clearly the conveyor belt wasn't matching the forward velocity of the plane, which was the whole premise to begin with.
The central point to understand is that it is physically impossible for the moving surface to exert sufficient force on the *plane* to counteract the thrust of the plane's propellers.
The confusion comes, in some people, when... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 1:46 AM on January 31, 2008
MeTa post:
FPPs posts that are conclusive should be based on evidence.
Answers to these queries would have materially changed the FPP's conclusion.
look who's being emotive, shrill, and conclusive in tone now!
but my queries, informed and well intentioned queries remain unaddressed
We all have questions. The FPP laid out one version of reality reasonably well. If you have disagreements with the data, tells us what they are and why... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 11:44 PM on January 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Trainwreck Thread
thanks for posting your comment wendell. jessamyn's deletion of yours was way out of line, and well, bruce's follow-up idiocy and raw ad-hom speaks for itself.
posted to MetaTalk by panamax
at 12:44 PM on December 23, 2007
