RAZD
Member (Idle past 1434 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: 03-14-2004
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Message 91 of 147 (92853)
03-16-2004 11:54 PM
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Reply to: Message 90 by crashfrog
03-16-2004 11:33 PM
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idiot?
idiot eh? "It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that)." (Richard Dawkins) first wrote that in a book review in the New York Times in 1989
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/dawkins_21_3.html his last paragraph discusses the possibility of a fifth category:"I don't withdraw a word of my initial statement. But I do now think it may have been incomplete. There is perhaps a fifth category, which may belong under "insane" but which can be more sympathetically characterized by a word like tormented, bullied, or brainwashed. Sincere people who are not ignorant, not stupid, and not wicked can be cruelly torn, almost in two, between the massive evidence of science on the one hand, and their understanding of what their holy book tells them on the other. I think this is one of the truly bad things religion can do to a human mind. There is wickedness here, but it is the wickedness of the institution and what it does to a believing victim, not wickedness on the part of the victim himself. The clearest example I know is poignant, even sad, and I shall do it justice in a later article."
... I think a good word for it would be deluded, it would include self delusions and institutionally instigated delusions
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