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Permalink Reply by Moria Jackson on January 30, 2011 at 2:41am

There are well educated and well intentioned theists who are much smarter than I will ever be.  I do not discount everything they say, just because they are believers.  Some of them even make decent arguments for their religions.  Individually I don't find (most of) them stupid.  I find their beliefs stupid, misguided, and just plain silly. 

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Permalink Reply by Becca on January 30, 2011 at 3:00am

Stupid is a pretty crud word that I don't typically use in regards to people. Theism is certainly stupid as are a great many other ideas. I'd prefer to say that theists are deluded and ignorant.

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Permalink Reply by Amelia on January 30, 2011 at 7:43am

Thank you thats good to hear,

you can acheive very positive results if you talk to someone on equal terms, it will be more likely that afterwards they will think about the arguments mentioned and question their beliefs rather then feeling insulted. However i think i will take a hard stand against theists who use religion as a way for them to spread their hate or their close minded views or supposed prophets that really only want money. Those people who use others for their own agenda or truely believe they are right. Even with overwhelming evidence standing in their way, they are a serious threat not just to atheists but to the people around them.

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Permalink Reply by Ava Wilson on January 30, 2011 at 7:48am

The problem is that it's not easy to understand where they're coming from. You don't think an adult who believes in leprechauns at the end of rainbows, or that toys can talk are delusional if not a little "slow"? It's the same thing.

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Permalink Reply by Hope on January 30, 2011 at 9:11am

Theists are NOT stupid but religion IS.

Theists are victims of the stupid thing called religion.

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Permalink Reply by Adam Weber on January 30, 2011 at 10:46am

How is it dangerous?

Oh thats right you are going to talk to me about the MINORITY of fanatical religious people...

 

Religion is not dangerous and is not brain washing. You have zero evidence to prove this...

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Permalink Reply by Mo Trauen on January 30, 2011 at 11:56am

Religion is always dangerous:

 

http://goodatheistarguments.blogspot.com/2011/01/without-objective-...

 

http://goodatheistarguments.blogspot.com/2010/10/religion-cannot-ev...

 

http://goodatheistarguments.blogspot.com/2010/10/is-religion-evil.html

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Permalink Reply by Dustin on January 30, 2011 at 2:50pm

I don't hear the majority of mainstream religious people condemning the radical minority.  Do you? Didn't think so.  

 

That is because they mostly all believe the same thing.  It's just that the radical minority have the balls to act on it and speak it out loud.  

 

 

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Permalink Reply by M on February 25, 2011 at 4:33pm

Religion is dangerous for any number of reasons!  Religion squashes progressive thought and it absolutely detests reason.  Religion oppresses.  Religion promotes protecting belief and faith any way necessary-- even with violence.  Religion revels in ignorance and bigotry.  Religion is dangerous intellectually, emotionally, and literally: people die for or because of religion absolutely every day.   

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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on January 30, 2011 at 11:22am

How ironic. After I just got finished reading this thread I turned on CNN's "This Week" and there was a clip of Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton saying that people in the 21st century in these countries that do not have democracy are no longer going to sit by and not demand their "God given rights".

 

So is Hillary Clinton stupid?  

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Permalink Reply by Mo Trauen on February 2, 2011 at 12:00pm

Oooh, I like that.  May I borrow it?

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Permalink Reply by 3equ3cp1fsw0n on January 30, 2011 at 1:27pm

Ah. Just what I was hoping for. Two intelligent, interesting, informative, and eloquently expressed responses. Thank you.

 

I believe Hillary Clinton is a voice of reason in a world gone mad even though I am skeptical of some of her views, but I am full of skepticism about everything, except this: There is no God.

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