tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862170131521435894.post1104949400444197387..comments2023-11-02T07:39:02.009-07:00Comments on Post-Modern Enlightenment: Proselytizing to Deaf EarsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862170131521435894.post-8777591981699402512012-02-05T21:40:53.321-08:002012-02-05T21:40:53.321-08:00"Hardline" atheism seems to be overwhelm..."Hardline" atheism seems to be overwhelmingly an American phenomenon. And it's not terribly difficult to understand why: If the only religion you've ever really been exposed to has been the American version of fundamentalist Christianity, AND you are privileged enough to gain access to a computer and philosophy books, it's pretty easy to think that religion is an evil thing.<br /><br />If the Fundamentalists who you can't get away from in meatspace keep equating their particular brand of Christianity with "religion" as a whole, it's easy to make that mistake yourself. And those same Fundamentalists are doing a VERY good job making sure people don't get exposed to the benefits of less vile religions.<br /><br />Their logic therefore states, <i>religion</i> is the reason that rednecks vote for morons in cowboy hats. <i>Religion</i> is why the education system is a mess, and people deny basic facts of environmental science.<br /><br />And when presented with posts like this, they simply point to the fact that you can get elected to public office in this country by namedropping Jesus every thirty seconds and claiming that gays should be forcibly cured via therapy/Planned Parenthood clinics should be bombed/the Earth is 6,000 years old and no science teacher has the right to tell our children otherwise/the Rapture is coming to whisk us away before we have to face the consequences of behaving like the bad guys from <i>Captain Planet</i>.<br /><br />This would be easier to counter if it wasn't true.nullhypothesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11784779286499862559noreply@blogger.com