CP3S said:
Here, try this on:
C3PX said:
If I could work my will, there would be no religion, no one would believe in a god or gods, and they would be better for it. No one would want to be Christians and no one would want to be religious. Things would be so much simpler that way. No offense to Christians or religious folk intended.
I feel like had I said this during any of our religious discussions, you would have been rather hurt and offended.
To be completely honest, though I try not to bring it up, I totally feel like the world would be far better off, though perhaps a bit less interesting, if religion were to altogether die off and become a a thing of the past that everyone cringes or laughs about. Kind of like how we cringe or sometimes chuckle when we think about the fact that doctors used to slice open arteries to let their patients bleed their fevers out.
Why am I saying all of this here and now when it doesn't relate to the topic at hand whatsoever? Because I could never imagine Mrebo applauding my forthrightness for saying such a thing.
If our opinions are backwards, bigoted, hateful, and mean-spirited, perhaps applause is better deserved when you keep it to yourself. If someone here came out and admitted that if they could work their will there would be no black people, because, you know, it would be less complicated that way, I really hope nobody here would applaud their forthrightness for it.
By the way, religious people are okay by me, I've known a lot of awesome and very intelligent religious people.
If it were an atypical expression of your beliefs on the subject, I very well might applaud you for stepping outside that normal zone of your usual socially-approved beliefs. Warbler doesn't do that often. And spitting out anti-religious views isn't that risky or out of character. So I see no need to applaud that.
I see no need to bully someone into silence. I know Warbler strenuously believes there should be no legal discrimination of any sort, he doesn't personally see any reason gay relationships should be seen differently than straight ones (though his church teaches otherwise), but he makes a comment on how - purely hypothetically - society could be simpler if there was a single form of sexuality and he's a terrible bigot.
I actually thought Gaffer gave a very good response. It was actually responsive!
I'm still embarrassed about that restaurant bathroom.
