I think the subject itself brings out no venom. The venom comes when someone is attacked for their belief systems. Going back a long way, the ET atheists have consistently tried to attack and marginalize the belief systems of theists, and I really don't understand why. If they are happy and content in their own religion of atheism, why the need to attack others in their religion? It is a mystery to me. I can only think that they have unresolved issues from their own childhood about religion, and have not yet come to terms with it and moved on. Seems to me that they are holding resentments from a long time ago. I can fully understand taking issue with organized religion, as I often take issue with organized religion and its impact on the political process, but personal faith? To me, that is a different matter entirely. Personal faith is just that, personal. Yet the resident ET atheists somehow have a need to attack and try to belittle the personal faith of others. I simply don't get it. I don't know if it is envy, jealousy, a need to feel superior, etc., but it is consistent. Maybe they need to try to make theists wrong to make themselves right, I don't know.
Just practicing stuism to see how it feels, and frankly as I practice stuism, I feel like an idiot. But hey, if it works for you, that is good!
Males are instinctively predisposed to defend and assume territory. For humans, this extends to the territory of mind, because intellectual property is valuable and attractive to females because it identifies superior reproductive traits. Belief in religion is important territory as it frequently provides the moral justification for actions which may harm others and place oneself at risk. Fear is the instinct which drives us away from danger. The loss of personal territory is a perceived danger, thus it generates considerable fear. Thus, a threat to one's belief system generates fear of loss of territory and mating possibilities -- and what follows is venom. Now, just wait and see the response that this post will likely generate.
quoting your own stuff against yourself you were obviously practicing ZZzzism. That will be why you feel such and idiot.
I do feel like an idiot when practicing stuism, but it is a temporary feeling, as it is just acting. Your condition on the other hand, of actually being such an idiot is a permanent situation. Oh how lively...
Tha'ts all you really want to achieve isn't it, to skip the "boring civility" and begin your trolling flaming and insuling .
here's a classic case and point....did i say you? did i say anyone? No.. I was making an observation and asking a question and even went to the length to say BOTH sides.....yet you right away took it personally....