Don’t Call Religious Believers Stupid (Tip 1 of 10 For Reaching Out To Religious Believers)

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I would not even call their beliefs stupid since it sounds too much like calling them stupid and I would rather not open myself to them hearing that in what I say. There are perfectly devastating, highly specific and unbelittling words to use. You can say their positions are unsupported by evidence, fantastically implausible, absurd, fallacious, historically disproven, scientifically impossible/disproven/unlikely, logically contradictory, etc.
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Explaining science’s magic to the young

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“The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True,” which will be released [Today]in the United States, is a book about science, Dawkins says, and “not anti-religion.”

In his book, he intends to show that “the magic of reality is the fascinating wonder of reality shown through science.” . . .

Dawkins is a Big Bang guy who rejects the question, “Who — as in God — made it?” “It’s not a sensible question,” he says. “It’s like asking, ‘Why are mountains jealous?’

And as the interview ends, he has one final request. “Tell them,” he says, “that this is a science book. Not an anti-God book.”
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Quote: Lucretius from “On the Nature of the Universe”

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Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99 BCE – ca. 55 BCE)
Roman Poet and Philosopher

Therefore this terror and darkness of the mind
Not by the sun’s rays, nor the bright shafts of day,
Must be dispersed, as is most necessary,
But by the face of nature and her laws.

We start then from her first great principle
That nothing ever by divine power comes from nothing.
For sure fear holds so much the minds of men
Because they see many things happen in earth and sky
Of which they can by no means see the causes,
And think them to be done by power divine.
So when we have seen that nothing can be created
From nothing, we shall at once discern more clearly
The object of our search, both the source from which each thing
Can be created, and the manner in which
Things come into being without the aid of gods.

Quote: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945)
32d President of the United States (1933–1945)

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

Aphorism: On the Ridicule of Religious Belief

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By Madison S. Hughes (10.03.2011)

One has no choice but to ridicule religious belief.

The character House in the television medical drama of the same name once said, “If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.” That is profoundly insightful. Any attempt to address religious belief with reason and logic to a believer will leave one with the same frustrations Sisyphus must feel.

In sum, address the rational with reason, and the irrational with ridicule.