MG 2.0 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 6:20 pm
Res Ipsa wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 5:52 pm
And it's exactly MG 2.0's style of bigotry that permits it to happen.
If you consider someone like Mitt Romney and his politics to be bigoted, then I guess I’m a bigot. But I don’t see him as a bigot. I see him as a model to pattern one’s political philosophy AND action after. I don’t think he would condone far right religious/political zealots in Idaho or anywhere else.
Same here.
Your misrepresentation is not appreciated.
And no matter what I say you keep throwing that ugly term at me.
Please stop.
I have, as I’ve said repeatedly, nothing against you as a person. I don’t care how you personally live YOUR life and what YOU believe. All men should be free to worship or not worship God.
I am ONLY opposed to the philosophical underpinnings of the secular field of THOUGHT. A world in which the absence of God is predicated to be the foundation of thought, morality, and human endeavor. I think it’s a mistaken philosophy and/or worldview and ultimately will lead society to a dark place if this trend among recent generations continues to take root and grow..
THAT, sir, is NOT bigotry.
Regards,
MG
You're not Mitt Romney.
I haven't misrepresented your words. Not at all. Over and over you've portrayed the mere existence of people who don't believe in God as an existential threat to civil society. You've made the sickening claim that people who simply do not believe in God support putting pornography in public school libraries. That kind of rhetoric is exactly why people feel justified in threatening librarians and their families with violence. We can all read your words. You aren't just talking about philosophy. You're demonizing and dehumanizing actual flesh and blood people.
You think the term is ugly? The actual bigotry you post here is million times uglier. DARVO
When will get it through your thick head that there is no "secular school of thought." The absence of a belief in something is not a school of thought. I don't believe that Bigfoot exits. Let's see, I'll make up something I'll label "littlefootists" and rail on endlessly about the "Littlefootists School of Thought. I'll claim that LIttlefootism is an existential threat to civil society and regurgitate things I hear like "Littlefootism promotes torture of cats." "Littlefootists want drag queens to molest your children."
But, in fact, all we are talking about is people who don't believe that Bigfoot exists. They don't have anything resembling a School of Thought. Their nonbelief in Bigfoot may be for any number of a dozen reasons. There is no reason to believe that they agree on anything else. They might be liberals, conservatives, libertarians, Marxists, fascists, anarchists, Mormons, Catholics, unitarians, atheists, satanists, cat lovers, cat haters, and on and on and on. THERE IS NO SCHOOL OF LITTLEFOOTIST THOUGHT.
What you are engaging in is simple, crystal clear bigotry. You are claiming that every single person that doesn't believe in God is an existential threat. Your invocation of "Secularism" is simply as way of trying to justify yourself and others that your bigotry is okay.
Here's a bet that I'd make if there were a way to objectively determine the winner. That emotion you are feeling that leads you ask me stop labeling your words as bigotry? That's cognitive dissonance. That's your "Light of Christ" trying to get it through your thick skull that your actions aren't consistent with your beliefs. Some part of your brain knows that accusing nonbelievers of promoting child pornography in schools is anti-Christlike. That you are treating your fellow humans in a way diametrically opposed to what Christ taught.
And that isn't going to go away unless you make a change. That Jiminy Cricket part of your brain is going to ask you each and every time you make the kind of bigoted statements about "secularists" that you've made throughout this thread "Am I a bigot?" You can deploy all of your skills of mental gymnastics and rationalization to convince yourself that, of course you're not a bigot. You can't be. You're a good person and bigots are bad people.
But that still small voice ain't going anywhere.
You can lower your moral code and adopt bigotry as a virtue. Or you can conform you actions to your moral code by not posting bigotry. That's kind of how cognitive dissonance works.
As for me, if you continue to posted bigoted nonsense, I will continue to label it as such.