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Should we try to shame God believers into changing their outdated belief system or patiently wait for them to smarten up? But it's been thousands of years already and it's still the same superstitious, outlandish belief system.

Here's a paragraph from my book which I think makes the point.

...If they couldn't figure out that the Earth revolved around the sun, how can we expect these divinely inspired holy men to have insight into the complex mystery of human nature? Rather than believe in Cynthia's concept of original sin of arrogance, refusal to accept incontrovertible evidence that we evolved from lower life forms, the writers of the Bible devised a fantastic bedtime story of Original Sin where a talking snake seduces the first lady (literally) into deceiving her boyfriend thereby pissing off the omnipotent ruler of the universe - comic book stuff!

Aristopus 7 May 7
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Leave them alone. Everyone has their comfort zones. I’m not sure that being an agnostic should be a cry to arms. It’s just a little corner for you to appreciate the miraculous accident that gave you consciousness and to whisper the question “why?” And hearing the breeze sing “I don’t know....”

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We should not try to same believers out of their beliefs anymore than they should try to shame us INTO them. Believers are the ones with the authoritarian desire to control others; that is not what should define us.

That doesn't mean I don't think religious faith isn't harmful to society, or that I won't argue against it in the appropriate contexts and forums.

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Taken literally, there’s not much to gain. Though like the tales of Aesop, some wisdom can be gleaned.

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