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> an unrepresentative part The fundamentalists are the particular religious people whose beliefs and actions are most relevant to me, as a nonbeliever. The mas
by asciilifeform 18y ago
> an unrepresentative part
The fundamentalists are the particular religious people whose beliefs and actions are most relevant to me, as a nonbeliever. The masses who "live and let live" are politically irrelevant. The crazies are fully representative of those religious people whose stances actually affect my life.
> Contraceptives are supported by most religious people
So, which church is distributing condoms to Africans? Oh, that's right, none of them.
- Hexstream 18y ago"So, which church is distributing condoms to Africans? Oh, that's right, none of them." I don't think most religious people go on missions in Africa... in fact it's probably the fundamentalist minority that would do that kind of thing.
- asciilifeform 18y agoThat was precisely my point. It is the fundamentalists of every religion who work hardest to insert their religion into the lives of nonbelievers.
- lukifer 18y agoYour post(s) could have been made entirely accurate with the judicious application of the word "some". It was probably already implicit in your mind, but not necessarily in the mind of the reader.