RT @edyong209: Oh FFS RT @mdedora: If you could do away with rape or religion, which would you choose? Sam Harris picks religion: http://bit.ly/TRVY8h- @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive. Rape is never either. Harris is a dick.
Three true things RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive. Rape is never either. Harris is a dick.
RT @edyong209: Three true things RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive. Rape is never either. Harris is a dick.
RT @edyong209: Three true things RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive. Rape is never either. Harris is a dick.
Except for the UNTRUE part. That's important, you know. RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive.
RT @pzmyers: Except for the UNTRUE part. That's important, you know. RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive.- RT @edyong209: Three true things RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive. Rape is never either. Harris is a dick.
RT @pzmyers: Except for the UNTRUE part. That's important, you know. RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive.
RT @pzmyers: Except for the UNTRUE part. That's important, you know. RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive.- Not arguing about some benignity, but that it's based on lies. RT @john_s_wilkins: Not untrue if there's a single instance of that
- RT @edyong209: Three true things RT @john_s_wilkins: @edyong209 @mdedora Religion is often benign, even positive. Rape is never either. Harris is a dick.
- I'm not arguing 'for' rape, or that Harris is right. RT @john_s_wilkins: Non sequitur, then. Religion can be benign, rape cannot. QED
- RT @john_s_wilkins: @pzmyers Now if Harris had argued a utilitarian point that religion is *more* harmful than rape, he'd still be a dick.
- I agree with that point. But you can't excuse lies because they're 'benign', either. RT @john_s_wilkins: We were discussing that very point.
- @john_s_wilkins @pzmyers It's also a bit of a "when the hell would this magic wand scenario actually happen" fallacy.
RT @pzmyers: I'm not arguing 'for' rape, or that Harris is right. RT @john_s_wilkins: Non sequitur, then. Religion can be benign, rape cannot. QED
@edyong209 @john_s_wilkins @mdedora I love how he takes his own religion, and conveniently redefines it as non-religious.- Also not excusable because some of its practitioners are nice people. RT @john_s_wilkins: Religion is not an all-purpose evil demon.
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Philosopher, punster, fatso. Working on a book on natural classification in the sciences. Talk about religion, politics and music when I am avoiding work.
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