Hakan:
>who will watch out for linguists on crack cocaine. . .
Beats me. Can't see anything with all this smoke in my eyes, man. Cough,
cough.
Hakan to Danny:
>May I ask - are you a Christian?
Danny to Hakan:
>Yes, as a matter of fact I am. But besides that, I wasn't
>*attacking* Darwin or evolution; I was just stating that
>some people have used Darwinian ideas to promote dangerous
>causes.
I used to be a Christian but I found that the Gay Pride Parade was way more
fun. Back to seriousness. I grew up in a Jehovah's Witness household (as
"Bible Belt" as you can get) and if there's anything a JW can't stand is the
concept of "evolution" (or homosexuality, or AIDS, or smoking, or blood
transfusions, or swearing, or gym teachers, or...). They REALLY take things
literally from the Bible, from creation to the Tower of Babel. When I'm
around my family, sometimes I feel like I'm hanging around a bunch of drug
addicts. Discussing topics with them is absolutely futile because they know
that they are right and I'm wrong, regardless of the knowledge or
experiences I have.
This brings us to an important and sad life lesson about humanity that I
would like to share with yous - There will always be those that believe
rather than rationalize, those that trust what can't be seen more than
what's before them, those that love their precious god above their own
family. We can't help them. I have nothing against faith but it's when one's
belief overrides reasoning that it starts to get scary, much like dimentia,
depression, schizophrenia or other mental illnesses that anyone on this list
may be diagnosed with. ;) It goes for religion, linguistics or any of the
sciences.
- gLeN
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