No God bus.....
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Moth, I'll ignore your bias against bus drivers, but I must ask: you're actually pissed at this guy because he's religious? Since when is that cause for anger? Some of the kindest people I have ever met—scratch that, ALL of the kindest people I have ever met—are deeply religious. There have of course been countless people who hold to some faith, Christian or other, who are angry, violent people, but I have always said that a religion should be judged by the quality of its Scripture, and the relatively few adherents who really live by them.
They have a saying down South: "The hit dog hollers." When people hear things that they recognize as truth on a deep level, but ignore, explain away and deny because they would rather live life on their own terms, they get rankled. Deep truth tends to hit deep nerves, if it registers at all. Statements of absolute truth that don't resonate with a person's self-made moral code always seem inflammatory, regardless of how gently they are delivered. The great hypocrisy is that when a dogmatic statement is made that is fashionable (e.g. the banner on the bus behind Dawkins, above), nobody complains. This sort of majority rule, group think, fad-driven theology/philosophy is the ultimate in mediocrity. I find this sadly ironic since most atheists style themselves as original thinkers.
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- who says this "The hit dog hollers"mistermik
- It's a common idiom in the U.S. South.gramme
- actually it's not
tcmmct - Actually I grew up in the south, and actually it is. Maybe not in all corners, but in Alabama it's a known phrase.gramme
- I grew up in the South as well and have only read that idiom in short stories.duckofrubber