re: #213 windsagio

Your post was basically equivalent to me saying “read this one particular analysis of the Bible I like or don’t expect me to have any respect for your opinions or arguments on this subject.”

No, it wasn’t. You are using a line of logic that is very old, and very fallacious. It is dealt with very neatly in Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. It is dealt with in a large number of other philosophical texts, as well. It has nothing at all to do with the interpretation of a text; it’s logic.

And you respect it because its only reasonable to do so.

You didn’t actually answer, you know.

Like I said I’m damn sure I’m right and that Mormons, or Muslims, or Atheists are very very wrong.

Actually, most religious people that I know that I do respect the beliefs of don’t actually think that they’re ‘right’. They wouldn’t put it in those terms.

I also acknowledge that I could be the one wrong, and don’t make presumptions of superiority.

I don’t think I’m superior.

It strikes me as deeply wrong to say ‘well my belief system is somehow different and better than yours’.

It strikes me as deeply wrong that you’re still calling atheism a belief system. Hypocritical, actually, given that you know that’s the subject I’m saying is under contention. Why not give a little respect to my position, if you’re so big on it, and consider that that is actually an open question? Why not acknowledge that you could be the one who’s wrong, and not make presumptions of superiority?