Yes, the fundies should be wiped out. But if someone tried to wipe out moderate religion with them, well I'd fight against that, gun in hand.
Those are inseparable. You can't have an ideology and don't have people that go deep into it. Furthermore, the best way to judge an ideology is to look at paragons. If religions would be a good thing, fanatics of it would be wonderful people.
And now you see why I don't trust snobby atheists. Why should I take your arguments to heart, or think you're doing this in good faith (no pun intended) if you're willing to blatantly misrepresent me?
It is not a strawman, it is pointing out that irrational beliefs are a source of a lot of shit that doesn't justify - it would be boring otherwise. Also, I see nothing boring in marvelous, complex, infinite reality. There is no need to mix it with falsehoods.
1. Rolan said what I wanted to say here but I think any ideology or belief system, taken too far, results in insanity. Even liberalism and socialism in their pure forms are, at best, inefficient. The real cause of bigotry is simply a fear of people who are not like you and it is a primal feeling. I admit religion can be a catalyst in it but generally bigots are good at finding excuses for their bigotry. And, well, I consider myself something of a paragon of my faith, after all I read the Bible unlike most Christians and I spend my time defending it on some half-dead internet forum. And yet I am far from a bigot.
2. Something about purely physical reality is too terrifying for me. And besides I was talking about what a culture in a hypothetical society of human-Vulcans would be like. :p (though tbh Vulcans are kind of hypocrites even in TOS)
Yes, the fundies should be wiped out.
I think that large portion of people you meet online with extreme views are often young people who are still figuring out stuff and insecure in their beliefs, but they usually grow out of it.
I do not like people only cast stone at others and think that their shit don't stink.
Wiped out, meaning their bigoted interpretation being wiped out. I don't propose, I don't know, putting them against the wall. I'm not like that anymore.
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