Blog response

I think the man that says “my race is superior” is on thin ice before he starts, because it’s not something he can prove. When your blogger says he has a problem with intolerance, he’s not claiming any sort of superiority however, and I don’t think the two are comparable. That’s not to say he doesn’t feel superior, he probably does, but his statement doesn’t rely on it.

So that might be the problem… I’m not trying to compare the racist with the blogger. I’m trying to compare the racist with a person who believes in a supernatural religion. He is critical of those people who work to end supernatural based religions because the only people who cause problems are “fundamentalists” etc… —

my argument is that he also has to be critical of people who work to end racism for the same reasons. My guess is that he is strongly against racism. So the two ways he can save himself are to either come up with some reason that this irrational belief is somehow NOT ok in a different way than a supernatural religion. OR to argue that it’s not ok to try and end this kind of racism.

I’ve responded to your note, you know where to find it =)

Is not intolerance a problem?

If it’s a valid line of reaqsoning and if I have a valid argument (e.g. One only needs find an inferior member of said superior race) you have just grouped yourself in with supernatural base religions. I would concede that supernatural based religions are as racist as atheists. Or at least evangelical atheists such as yourself.

I was just following your reasoning. You actually changed “intolerance” to Racism. You followed that line with an example of a group calling themselves superior and ended with you couldn’t think of a single argument that wouldn’t also apply to supernatural based religions. My note was in reference to your entry …

In reference to the comment this entry is based around, I agree with the comment in red. I find atheist zealots suffer from the same intolerance as theist zealots, and yes, as per your example their does seem to be a sense of superiority, typically manifested as either a moral or an intellectual superiority. In many respects you share many traits with religious fantatics, especially …

In regards to issues of tolerance. I don’t know you personally, you may be a nice guy, but you entries reek of a sort of piety, not an intellectual curiousity so much as a sense of intellectual entitlement and superiority to, primarily, a specific group; christians. I won’t beleagure the point; you either see it or not or at least see how someone just reading your entries could see it that way

I think the racist who says your quote is prideful and in religious terms would be considered ‘holier than thou.’ the central difference is that all religious, that I know of, have the goal of converting and freeing/saving people. They all want people to do God’s will. Even Islam in its middle age days would give people the option to convert before they killed them.

In light of that comment, I want to say that the above it fact and in no way suggests that Islam is a religion of hate, violence, or aggression… that is for the extremists. I know many peacful and charitable Muslims.

Who is he saying is intolerant?

Yeah, I won’t touch Flight of the Bumblebee on the piano, though I am learning it as a solo on the clarinet. I think you need more information here. You took that one line of his out of context. You should offer at least a little background on what he was talking about, for people like me who are too lazy to go to the link and read the blog ourselves. lol

I will do so, and reply to it, as soon as I can.

I have read An Atheist’s entries, and will post my rebuttal soon (hopefully). I’m going to keep them on private until I finish them completely. That way I can save them and come back to them, and think them through before making them “live”.