[ExI] Tolerance

[BillK]

On 12/8/09, Lee Corbin wrote:
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>  But the strategy of alienating religious people yet further
>  isn't going to help, except in ways I would not condone.
>  They shouldn't be given any reason whatsoever to think
>  that life under the atheists has been as bad as (at many
>  times) life for us under the religious often was.
>
>  Alas, this is surely all wishful thinking on my part.
>  As soon as we are in the heavy majority, kids will
>  hear in school from their PC teachers that, so far
>  as religion goes, "there are the brights who don't
>  believe, and then, there are the others, less bright,
>  who do, and sadly some of you in this very class come
>  from disadvantaged homes..."
>
>
> > obviously I am not for declaring an intellectual war or anything. But I do
> think that atheists need to not be wishy-washy and somehow give the
> religious the idea we think their ideas about the nature of reality have
> merit.
> >
>
>  Again, I agree.
>

This new article seems relevant.........

<http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2009/12/09/dawkins-offers-delusion-removal-service-for-bereaved-and-dying/>

Dawkins offers delusion removal service for bereaved and dying

‘Face Reality Now’, a new ‘delusion removal’ service set up by Richard
Dawkins, offers the soon to be bereaved an opportunity to confront
their dying friends and relations with their mortality.

‘It’s a scandal that people continue to die unaware that really is
it,’ explained Dr Dawkins. ‘Now, for a small fee, my service will send
trained atheists to reassure the dying that they can forget about any
after life nonsense.’

The service also offers a comprehensive after death option in which
the funeral cortege is followed by men with loudhailers shouting,
‘Stop comforting yourself with mumbo-jumbo. For God’s sake, he’s dead
– deal with it!’

But the Dawkins service has run into difficulties where some friends
of the dying are believers, but others aren’t. ‘At a recent deathbed
scene,’ admitted Dr Dawkins, ‘my atheists turned up at the same time
as a Catholic priest. Things got a bit out of hand with a fight
breaking out around the dying man. Still, I’m pleased to say ‘Face
Reality Now’ won.’
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BillK
(By the way, this is a satirical article)  :)