There is little that is actually rational about replacing God with science and prophets with scientists which seems to be the case in DT's comments. Exercising ones critical thinking skills should prevent one from arriving at the conclusion presented.
I agree with Res Ipsa regarding the OP. All things considered, the ruling seems to be a win for the protection of a person's civil liberties against institutional bias. I'm for that even if I disagree with the baker's actions in this case.
The world is always full of the sound of waves..but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it's depth? ~ Eiji Yoshikawa
yawn, (from your link) "Indeed, the survey shows that scientists are roughly half as likely as the general public to believe in God or a higher power" meaning that of scientists, in DT's view, are "half as likely" of being influenced in their sciencey decisions and are not even "smart"....so yeah, good luck going down this "many scientists" road, brah.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
I have no comment on nor an interest in the ruling, but as someone who is egalitarian toward T3h G@yz I don't really care if someone doesn't want to sell them a cake. I certainly don't like the idea of the government telling a baker he has to sell them a cake that contradicts his ethos. That smacks of authoritarianism and I don't like it.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
You choose to be Christian but you don't choose your sexuality. This is Christofascist skullfukkery at its finest and the attorneys know how to slip the shank into the thinnest crevice to pry the Constitution apart.
Maksutov wrote:You choose to be Christian but you don't choose your sexuality. This is Christofascist skullfukkery at its finest and the attorneys know how to slip the shank into the thinnest crevice to pry the Constitution apart.
Hiya Mak. Which part of the Constitution do you think was pried apart here?
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
subgenius wrote:meaning that of scientists, in DoubtingThomas's view, are "half as likely" of being influenced in their sciencey decisions and are not even "smart"....so yeah, good luck going down this "many scientists" road, brah.
Dude the primary definition of religion is "The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods". Most scientists do not believe in some supernatural god, let alone theology. It is much worse for you if we talk about physicists.
Stupid word games.
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honorentheos wrote:There is little that is actually rational about replacing God with science and prophets with scientists which seems to be the case in DoubtingThomas's comments. Exercising ones critical thinking skills should prevent one from arriving at the conclusion presented. .
I do replace God with scientific thinking, but scientists are not my prophets.
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