Comments on: Atheists Don’t Need Any Handbook http://steelwhitetable.org/2006/03/18/atheists-dont-need-any-handbook/ I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:38:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ashley http://steelwhitetable.org/2006/03/18/atheists-dont-need-any-handbook/comment-page-1/#comment-8507 Ashley Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:17:20 +0000 http://steelwhitetable.org/blog/2006/03/18/atheists-dont-need-any-handbook/#comment-8507 Description kind of rankles. I don't <i>believe</i> in reason anymore than I <i>believe</i> in gravity. Reason works and is the only thing that works to deal with the world. Praying for a crop doesn't grow one. Meditating for peace doesn't keep your neighbor from beating his wife and kids. Abstaining from masturbation won't get a capsule to the Moon. Reason is not something in which one places faith. It's a fact which one discovers. It's also not mutually exclusive with the power and proper place of ritual and myth. The article is right about the socially approved bigotry, though. George I (Bush that is) was quoted on his campaign trail as saying atheists shouldn't be allowed to be American citizens. Description kind of rankles. I don’t believe in reason anymore than I believe in gravity. Reason works and is the only thing that works to deal with the world. Praying for a crop doesn’t grow one. Meditating for peace doesn’t keep your neighbor from beating his wife and kids. Abstaining from masturbation won’t get a capsule to the Moon.

Reason is not something in which one places faith. It’s a fact which one discovers. It’s also not mutually exclusive with the power and proper place of ritual and myth.

The article is right about the socially approved bigotry, though. George I (Bush that is) was quoted on his campaign trail as saying atheists shouldn’t be allowed to be American citizens.

]]> By: rekounas http://steelwhitetable.org/2006/03/18/atheists-dont-need-any-handbook/comment-page-1/#comment-8463 rekounas Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:08:39 +0000 http://steelwhitetable.org/blog/2006/03/18/atheists-dont-need-any-handbook/#comment-8463 What bad things are you going to say about a group that doesn't believe in God? Would most of them care? I believe in the aliens. Does that make me an athiest? What bad things are you going to say about a group that doesn’t believe in God? Would most of them care?

I believe in the aliens. Does that make me an athiest?

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