Non-Christians are 'crazy', pilot tells terrified passengers

[Bogey]

Didn't Pascal also advise us to do the religion thing, "just in case"?

[Ambient Sheep]

I read an article many years ago that said that Mother Theresa was actually a self-publicising evil old witch who actually fucked up a lot of the people she was trying to help.

"The Missionary Position" by Christopher Hitchens is the relevant book. He did a TV documentary...Her dying patients were kept in very poor conditions and denied strong analgesics (pain is virtuous) while huge amounts of money diappeared...

Yes, that's the one!  Thanks for that.  I think the article I read was yer standard Observer or Indie-on-Sunday book-extract / plug for the aforementioned TV documentary, which I remember that I managed to miss.

Amazon it say 1995 - didn't realise it was as recent as that.  Ah well.

Thanks again for the reference, duly filed for next time, hopefully!  :-)

[El Unicornio, mang]

I don't have anything against religious people, some of the nicest people I've met have been Christians who haven't tried to force religion on me. Jehovah's Witnesses can bugger off though.
I like to remain agnostic, I keep an open mind on pretty much anything, because I, like everyone else, doesn't know anything for sure. I generally don't like people trying to force their opinions on me, it's not just religious people, people in general who think they have the best moral outlook on life annoy me. People who say "you shouldn't practise religion" are as bad as those who say you should.

[Smackhead Kangaroo]

the way i see it is that people can belive what they want as long as it doesn't affect other people [well me that is] in a detrimental way.

While very liberal this is unacceptable. If you really belive something, and someone believes the contrary ,(and presuming you think you're right) I 'd say you have somef orm of duty to correct the wrongthinker.
Obviously with very obvious cases this would seem easily truthful and fully justified. but the grey areas are a pain in the arse.
Of course this means I'm caught in a bind. while i must try and correct dogmatic zealots, I must also respect what they also think they're doing is right.

[El Unicornio, mang]

the way i see it is that people can belive what they want as long as it doesn't affect other people [well me that is] in a detrimental way.

While very liberal this is unacceptable. If you really belive something, and someone believes the contrary ,(and presuming you think you're right) I 'd say you have somef orm of duty to correct the wrongthinker.
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that's as bad as Christians bible-bashing though