Saul Luizaga wrote:
> I think people like you are voluntarily blind to spirituality and make 
> sure to stay this way, hence any belief in God is just non-sense from 
> "wacky people". I wonder what kind of fear(s) relies in this denial 
> behavior... comfortableness of a materialistic world? who knows, but I 
> think you are wasting your time analyzing religion/spiritual related 
> matters when you have an aperture to it of any kind, because everything 
> would be just non-sense anyway.

?? You do know how many fracking people that call themselves atheist 
right now started out as complete and total believers right? By my 
estimate its like 50:50. But seriously, heard the argument before, and 
its complete idiocy, even without the fact that half the people that now 
deny religion started out religious.

Oh, and, just to be clear, there are a lot of people that do believe in, 
and do analyze spirituality and religions, how never the less get 
sneered at by both atheists and believers alike, because they invariably 
reach the conclusion that no one could possibly believe in an 
interventionist god. One side sneers at them because you can't turn on 
the TV without hearing someone babbling about how god directly 
intervened in something, and the other side sneers at them for not 
"getting really spirituality and the truth that god truly does intervene 
in people's lives". So, are these "scholars" also "blind"?

As for fear.. The only thing I fear from religion is the kind of 
stupidity and ignorance that can lead to people insisting that the 
solution to every problem our nation faces is more churches, less 
evidence based facts in schools, more historical revisionism, and less 
"evil materialist insistence on treating the world like we can 
understand it!". That scares the hell out of me. Your fiction that I 
might burn in hell or end up in limbo, or be reincarnated as snail, or 
what ever the heck you think is going to happen, holds about as much 
fear for me as the possibility that Freddy Cruger is real and will visit 
me in my dreams, to kill me. And, no, you are the one confusing wishful 
thinking with the idea that just because you find "comfort" in an idea 
it has to be "right". How often is that "ever" true in the real world?

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