“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
? Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
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This is what the religious people feel when we (atheists) contradict them. They feel cognitive dissonance.
Sarahroo29
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Jan 16, 2018
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I think this is how a lot of Evangelical Christians feel whenever something happens that goes against their dogma, like when same-sex marriage became legal in the US. Or rather, that's how their leaders want their followers to feel, and there's way too much following without questioning.
bingst
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Jan 16, 2018
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Favorite writer ever. The man was brilliant. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
MelissaC137
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Jan 16, 2018
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One of my favorites to go to when someone uses the offended defense.
IntellectualRN
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