re: #33 wrenchwench

Google is my friend who helps me understand some of them. I just learned about Russell’s Teapot.

And that is exactly why these people are such an enemy to the very faith they believe they are defending.

By making foolish statements and caterwauling like idiots, they remove the chance for reasonable discussion about the value of believing in that teapot, or the reasons that intelligent people might believe in that teapot.

Any such discussion gets obliterated in the braying noise of these jackasses.

Faith itself is not the enemy.

Belief in things which can not be directly observed or subject to the strict scientific method is not the enemy.

At the end of the day, strict logical positivism is just as much a chosen world view as faith. Not everything of value can be directly measured. Things like love and compassion do not register on any scientific instrument.

Yet they are real things. They are things that make us worthy as humans.

But worth and morality also do not register on any scientific instrument.

The enemy is when stupid people, like these asses on Fox, co-opt faith for their own advantage as a means to oppress the conscience, learning and thinking of others.