[ExI] Tolerance

[Brent Neal]

On 7 Dec, 2009, at 18:04, John Clark wrote:

> Well what can I say, if you believe in God then you are stupid, at  
> least you are on that subject. And as much as I love Russell and  
> Hitchens there is no way to ignore the fact that Dawkins is FAR more  
> capable than either of the two in explaining exactly why it is stupid.
>
>> so we're going to call atheists 'Brights'!  Get it? Huh? Hur hur  
>> hur.")
>
> There is no doubt that Brights are smarter than their religious  
> counterparts, however I don't know if it was good public relations  
> to give atheists that name. I don't know much about PR.
>


Well, there's nothing much more to say here then. I simply disagree  
with you, based on evidence. Being wrong doesn't mean being stupid.  
Einstein was certainly quite wrong about the probabilistic nature of  
quantum mechanics, but that didn't make him stupid. It merely made his  
position incorrect. I don't think we accomplish much by assuming  
people are stupid when they are, to our minds, mistaken.

Of course, my assumption here is that you want to accomplish  
something. :)

B


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