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Old 09-10-2007, 05:53 PM
gumpzilla gumpzilla is offline
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Default Re: Is it immoral to believe in anecdotal \"answered prayer?\"

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I'm not sure exactly what this is supposed to be a crack at, i.e. what demographic or stereotype you are targeting. Is it that those who are able to turn on a computer are more likely to be critical of religion?

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Mostly it's an observation; I encounter more vocally militant atheists online than I do in life, and I associate primarily with scientists. It was a bit of a crack at OP, in this context, mostly because it seems like an attempt to vilify practitioners of religion for failing to live up to an artificially inflated moral standard that he almost certainly doesn't approach either. What I perceive as the need to establish disbelief as not just truthful (which I agree with) but morally superior (which as a blanket statement I don't agree with) strikes me as misguided and distasteful.
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