Pretty bleak and awful? Sure. Even extremely. But people will persist in performing what Eric Flint calls ‘stubborn little decencies’ in order to spite Evil.
https://twitter.com/laurakfillault/status/690553387893452800
Yazidi fighter raising a cross on a destroyed Assyrian church in Shingal city – @EzidiPresshttps://t.co/8LKSfpDbfp… pic.twitter.com/AQGIozqzKY
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) January 22, 2016
…it’s mean-spirited of me to taunt evangelical/hard-shelled/obnoxious atheists like I’ve been doing. Particularly since I know that the ones I’m taunting absolutely hate being reminded that they’re a somewhat unsophisticated religion masquerading as an inexorably rational end product of flawless classical logic. On the other hand, they’re a damned easy target and God/Goddess/[insert pantheon here] knows that evangelical atheists aren’t shy about mocking rival faiths themselves.
On the gripping hand, what I said earlier still applies: if you can’t deal (via @adamsbaldwin) with the concept that a bunch of Marines could make and erect a memorial cross on public property… well, that’s your religious crisis, not mine. I mean, everybody grapples with their faith occasionally: it’s just that most of us (and that includes most atheists) don’t start lawsuits to shut up the little internal voice of doubt…
Moe Lane
PS: I think monetizing this would annoy certain people. So:
