As long as we plan have a strong aversion to appearing stupid, why not include pretty much all religions?
If we wish to consider an infinite entity that somehow created the universe of which we are a part, and eliminate any and all theological sophisms and “laws” attributed to that entity, I have no problem with that belief. Of course, that will never fly with any organized religion in the history of humans.
I may have missed the full meaning of ilithiophobia. It is not so much a fear of appearing stupid as a fear of stupidity. Sorry. The rest of my comment remains pretty much the same.
Think I have already described my fear of human stupidity in a few dozen previous posts…clearly my favourite quote mostly applies to religious absurdities but any absurdities at all will do…
OK, here’s a word for y’all: misology — hatred, fear, or mistrust of reason and argument. The concept apparently dates back to Plato, but I only ran into the word for the first time this week.
The real problem is the acceptance that human stupidity has to be seen as something sacred. When you can be openly ridiculed and ostracised for crass stupidity as a societal norm it would make people less proud of their “Faith” in preposterous egregious lies…
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Wittily captures much of the absurdity of religious apologetics. Mano Singham
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Often hilarious, frequently wry, these cartoons do what all the best cartoons do: they tell the truth through humour. Terry Sanderson, NSS President
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includes the freedom to mock any person, any thing, any activity, and
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March 14, 2012
Frame 2: Islamophobia is?
Oops! Thank you, Gloops.
Obfuscation? How can you double down on the complete nonsense that is found in the Quran?
The term islamophobia is simply part of a battle for the semantic high ground. But I would argue I am ilithiophobic rather than islamophobic.
M27, easy. Listen to the USA DOj.
Hey, rom, you nailed it.
rom, your term, though somewhat unknown, does resonate with me.
As long as we plan have a strong aversion to appearing stupid, why not include pretty much all religions?
If we wish to consider an infinite entity that somehow created the universe of which we are a part, and eliminate any and all theological sophisms and “laws” attributed to that entity, I have no problem with that belief. Of course, that will never fly with any organized religion in the history of humans.
I may have missed the full meaning of ilithiophobia. It is not so much a fear of appearing stupid as a fear of stupidity. Sorry. The rest of my comment remains pretty much the same.
Think I have already described my fear of human stupidity in a few dozen previous posts…clearly my favourite quote mostly applies to religious absurdities but any absurdities at all will do…
OK, here’s a word for y’all: misology — hatred, fear, or mistrust of reason and argument. The concept apparently dates back to Plato, but I only ran into the word for the first time this week.
The real problem is the acceptance that human stupidity has to be seen as something sacred. When you can be openly ridiculed and ostracised for crass stupidity as a societal norm it would make people less proud of their “Faith” in preposterous egregious lies…
‘Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.’
Infinity is unknowable by a mind obsessed with exlusively finite objects…to try and describe infinity using finite examples just doesn’t work…
E.g. there are an infinite number of integers and between every integer pair there is an infinite set of real (floating point) numbers…
I found this exposition on shari’a interesting. You might too.
The Truth About Sharia Law | Let’s Talk Religion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_XQHz698E