Religious Fundamentalists

[nailit]

After years of debate on here (and elsewhere, both online and in person) with religious fundamentalists, there's only one conclusion that can be reached.
Their brains are switched off!

Im not talking about the average person who happens to have a religious belief. I mean the fundies. Those who believe whole heartedly in a given dogma and wont make any concession that they may be wrong, despite been shown evidence to the contrary.

I remember reading an Arthur C Clarke article once where he talked about a team of scientists who set up an observatory in a muslim country to observe a solar eclipse. The team of scientists were ridiculed by the local clerics who said that only Allah knows the timing of such things. After the eclipse, the clerics accepted that it had happened but said that it was nothing more than an amazing coincidence...

I have no problem at all with religious believers, but some (like the clerics above) cant accept the bloody obvious even when its been presented to them right before their eyes.
It gets passed over like its never even been read!!!

[Theland]

You make constant snide remarks and in return I ask for evidence for what you say.
Read your own posts to me on all threads to prove the point.

[naomi24]

What point? How do you suggest I 'prove' that I don't know how the universe came into being?

[Khandro]

Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Theland]

Read your posts to me to prove the point that you make constant snide remarks to me.

The universe? Yes I accept you don't know, but any ideas of how it did happen are an invitation for you to attack and not discuss.

Off out now. Back later.

[naomi24]

//Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein //

And yet you speak.

Theland, //any ideas of how it did happen are an invitation for you to attack and not discuss. //

But you don't claim 'ideas'. You never say 'could it be?' You claim to 'know' and therein lies the problem. If countering the irrationality of that is perceived as an attack, then you have more than one problem.

[Zacs-Master]

You only just realised!

[naomi24]

No... but getting through to him is an on-going challenge.

[Zacs-Master]

I'd say futile given your 14 year struggle.

[naomi24]

Haaa! A glutton for punishment! ;o)

[Zacs-Master]

;-)

[andy-hughes]

I have to say, in these 'two bald men fighting over a comb' exchanges between Naomi and the zealots, I will always applaud Naomi's tenacity and calmness under extreme provocation.

I do not always agree with her view, or she with mine, but I remain a true admirer of her ability to repeatedly and without deviation, state her case and argue it cogently.

As for the fog-plaiters, she has far more patience than I, and I do count myself a patient individual, but their endless repetition of the same questions, coupled with their stubborn unwillingness to accept that actually not knowing something, and with no prospect of finding out, some of us can actually live our lives without endlessly chewing the same bone which appears to re-grow itself in the night.