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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 09/15/2009 : 09:36:26
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Who's being more respectful, “accommodationists” who tiptoe around people's religious beliefs like adults who don't tell kids there's no Santa Claus, or “New Atheists” who treat religious believers like adults rather than like children who should be condescended to because they're not mature or intelligent enough to handle the truth (or at least someone else's version of it)?
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From, this article.
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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Interesting quote on accomodationism.
