I have watched people who believe in holistic healing allow their children to die by holding off on life-saving medicine. Their religious views never entered into it. I have watched environmentalists ban the use of DDT in countries where mosquito-borne malaria killed human infants by the thousands.
Wouldn't you say though, that the groups the above are members of bear all the hallmarks of a religion?
No. I think that extreme religious beliefs are an expression of the same thing that inflames the other groups into dangerous behaviour, tyranny, violence or neglect. The hallmarks are common to some greater disorder.
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Religion (or lack of) is not the motivator...it is the excuse.
Bingo!! +1
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Re: religulous
I just saw it and learned pretty much nothing I didn't already know. It was unnecessarily offensive, not funny at all, and Bill Mahar was unnecessarily way too rude...
Bill Mahar is a very mediocre comic with a touch of megalomania or at the very least he has greatly overestimated his own intelligence. He is pretty much just a blow-hard a-hole (at least in his public persona).
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After seeing Mahar's crap, I'm certainly no fan of his either.
Anything can be reduced to hypocrisy or absurdity depending on the lens we use to view it. The only way you can escape such lambasting is to do absolutely nothing and believe absolutely nothing.
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