04-17-2004, 09:25 PM
'How could I ever reach a point where new information makes me change if I never had any information in the first place? Therefore, I think it is wrong to mock those with faith, or those without it. None of us have any choice in the matter. It's like criticising people for the colour of their eyes. You might not like the greenies, or consider them insufferable even, with their 'I'm so lucky to have green eyes' approach, but you can't have green and they can't have brown.'<br>
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I agree with that, but the problem is that certain prosletyzing religious types do not. They are not content to let me be happy in my own 'misguided' beliefs. They do not accept that I can't be persuaded by them any more than they could be persuaded by me--because they are convinced of their own rightness. I have certain feelings about spiritual things, but I am not invested in being right and have no desire to 'bring others into the fold.' I can give these people my respect, but I won't get the same back.<br>
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<p>"I am an admirer of the ancients,but not like some people so as to despise the talent of our own times." Pliny the Younger</p><i></i>
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I agree with that, but the problem is that certain prosletyzing religious types do not. They are not content to let me be happy in my own 'misguided' beliefs. They do not accept that I can't be persuaded by them any more than they could be persuaded by me--because they are convinced of their own rightness. I have certain feelings about spiritual things, but I am not invested in being right and have no desire to 'bring others into the fold.' I can give these people my respect, but I won't get the same back.<br>
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<p>"I am an admirer of the ancients,but not like some people so as to despise the talent of our own times." Pliny the Younger</p><i></i>