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Originally Posted by pdamoc  I took it more like "Listen you negative IQ, **** for brains, nincampoops, stop putting your head in the sand.... etc." by the time I got to "stop putting your head in the sands" the perception apparatus inside my head was already drowned in revolt. It didn't picked up the message as clearly and efficiently as it could. And I believe myself to have a positive bias towards what Steve has to say.... The target persons for that message will not even get to the message. Their mind will not even process it because they will be too busy being revolted. |
I actually disagree on the target audience, as I think a more accurate target audience for such an article would be the "on the fence" types, who are probably still semi-believing in their religion, likely out of fear, but tired of it, and more likely to laugh and nod with such an article than be angry. One thing I've learned about debating with any highly religious person is that no matter what, NOTHING will change their mind when they're convinced that they're correct. Common sense doesn't work, even pointing out how their own Church (especially the Catholic one) goes directly against teachings of Jesus, that a basic understanding of the history of how the Bible came to be takes all of the divinity out of it and turns it into Roman political spin, etc- NONE of this will either be acknowledged or rebutted in any sort of satisfactory way by someone who's absolutely convinced that they're right.
I used to play around on a religion/politics board quite a bit years ago, which tended to become a big "atheist vs theist" flamefest too often for my liking. The thing I really learned from it is that, whether Christian, Muslim, or hard core Atheist, most people are set in their ways and wouldn't believe that the sky was blue if whatever they believed claimed it wasn't, even with it clear as day in front of them.
This turned into a caffeine-driven ramble, but you get the idea.
