• For a person to believe in something so preposterous, there has to be a deficiency somewhere. The person cannot be intelligent, because how can an intelligent person believe such a thing? That person cannot be a good person, because how can an intelligent person how believe in the goodness of God, or identify with atrocious in the Bible?
• At some point though, one side is playing a losing battle. But that’s not the point; it’s that these modes of communication are often defensive-offensive rotations that have set a precedent for dissent, criticism, and an asshole so clenched that nothing is going pass through.
• Observing the repeated mistakes, it is clear that this is not the way. It does not do anyone any …show more content…
They must also prove to themselves that they obviously right belief: These beliefs have formed over years, these people have thought about them, incorporated them into their worldview, under many different circumstances, and their whole sense of reality relies on them. When they think of atheism, disregarding the intellectual components, they have a negative impression. The stereotype of being godless and adrift in their stable world of objective morality has negative implications. But it’s more than that, these people have gone through a shitload of criticism, they are the minorities in a world dominated by the agenda of Darwinism, and for them to retain their belief signifies obstinate and unyielding stubbornness. They hear the way people get hard-ons for science, glorify science celebrities like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye, quote passages from actual scientists like Richard Dawkins as if were a religious authority figure, and revere Darwin as if he were Christ himself.
• When they ask for evidence, no one is really hearing their side of the story, rather they are looking for weaknesses, for contradictions, for any gaps of logic, to build their own viewpoint, and to aid in the dismantle of their