Along those lines: Nobody here was wearing a "Schrodinger's Cat is Not Dead" tshirt, were ya? Said snobbish a-hole with bulbous head / wavy '80s hair wave sat down ten minutes into it, and blocked my view of the stage from then on. I am much better than that guy.
I really enjoyed the lecture tonight. Took my Dad with me and he enjoyed it too. Funniest thing he dropped was how "enlightened" our state was.
I clearly heard somebody say "**** you buddy" pretty loudly and contemptuously after the "enlightened state of Texas" comment :grin:
I've thought to myself several times, if I'm invited to a picnic or to a fellowship dinner - I'd rather do it with Baptists than with a bunch of ultra-liberal agnostics. I'm not into the religion a'TALL. Just one of those things.
That guy was two rows directly in front of me, if I recall correctly. So I guess that means you were directly in front of me. I actually thought the guy with the t-shirt was moestavern19... Funny story from the book signing line...I was standing there waiting and some guy next to me asked me how to get the "Fave 5" screen off of his phone. I told him I was sorry and that I wasn't familiar with TMobile. A couple of seconds later, the display returned to the home screen on its own, and I said "look at that...someone must have prayed for it". He laughed and said "That's good...I like that one". I just thought it was funny that, for once, I knew I could get away with that kind of joke. And for anyone who thinks Dawkins is harsh, step into a church and see how the religious are talking about "non-believers". The fact that they often refer to them as "lost" is rather telling.
Huh; I thought the cat dude's description matched with moes, yeah, so I might have been sitting in front of you. But if my cursory understanding of Schrodinger's Cat holds true, there was just as likely another dude with that t-shirt up in the balcony, in a simultaneous state of not blocking the stage with his enormous head. Thanks again for the heads up on the tickets, CCR; I wouldn't have known about it before it sold out otherwise.
Religious people don't get to whine about other people being judgmental and intolerant. Thousands of years of witch hunts, excommunications, heresies, inquisitions, pogroms, jihads, stonings, beheadings, crusades and repressive theocracies verses some vaguely snooty attitude from some fairly marginalized communities is not remotely comparable.
You're right: all that stuff works, but the holier-than-thou attitude from agnostics is insufferable. One of the worst parts of supporting modern liberals is that, the vast majority of the time, it is completely ineffectual. All we're left with is the persecution complex, and the attitude. Let's take a page from the history you cite, and make with the persecution of our Other, already.
He said that for a human being to go through their existence without tapping into the knowledge of their origin or the science of life and the universe, especially since it is so readily available now, is a "terrible waste of life". Sounds like someone fed you some bonafied second-hand BS.
http://blogs.chron.com/believeitornot/2010/10/richard_dawkins_in_houston_a_n_1.html He barely talks about religious people and doesn't mention Christians by name, though it's clear that's who he is referring to. In between dismissive references to creation accounts and Bible stories, he calls them "ignoramuses," "scientific know-nothings" and "a tragic waste of life
What about agnostics who find the whole 'movement' overly aggressive and incessantly boring? Do they get to whine about the 'vaguely snooty attitude?'
