Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
A Drug of No-Choice
Suppose there was a way to make other people think like you?
Imagine a drug you could hand out that, with regular doses over a period of time, would cause other people to agree with you in every way. A drug that would cause them to be UNABLE, mostly, to disagree with you.
1) Would you give it to your kids?
2) Would you give it to your friends?
3) Would you give it to friends without telling them what it was but saying it would be good for them?
4) Would you hand it out to strangers on street corners?
5) Would you donate to an organization that planned to build offices in every neighborhood, which would be devoted to giving it to everyone who came in?
6) Would you give it to newborns, or children too young to make a decision about whether they should take it?
7) Would you be willing to put it into Halloween candy so that your neighbor's kids would get it without them knowing it?
8 ) Would you be willing to secretly authorize handing that candy out to kids at school, without their parents' consent or knowledge?
9) Would you give it to schoolchildren AGAINST their parents expressed wishes?
10) Would you pay to set up a booth at the local courthouse that would hand it out for free to everyone who came in?
11) Would you be willing to take it to other countries and hand it out to people, without carefully explaining to them what effect it would have on them, their families or relationships?
12) Would you be willing to take it to other countries and cultures and FORCE people to take it?
13) Would you be willing to ridicule, ostracize, torment or even kill those who refused to take it?
14) If someone else offered it to you, and you knew what effect it would have on you, would YOU take it?
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The reason I ask is, it seems to me this is exactly what religious people and organizations have been doing for the past several thousand years.
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you did say religious _people_
You all are proof God gives free will, so it obviously doesn't apply to God, but the point is taken that you said religious people and organizations.
Religious People
Good Christian comeback. It has that perfect snippy little passive-aggressive "dig" feel to it, but is unburdened by all that icky "reason" stuff.
warning: this particular atheist has social awkwardness
Hank, where in the hell did that come from?
Leave it to Mr. Fox to flame down someone who agreed with him.
I heard on the radio today how a lot of people were outraged that President Obama filled out a NCAA Basketball tournament bracket, that they were irritated that with all that's going on, that he'd take 25 minutes over lunch and do such a thing. The host chided such people, saying that they were the type that were standing in line, waiting to be offended by something...anything, looking for an excuse to be mad at someone.
"Icky 'reason' stuff"...over a four-line comment. You really do have those guns locked and loaded, dontcha?
hear! hear!
Well said. :)
Hmmm....
Disagreement and discussion are wonderful things. I don't know that I want anyone to think just like me, every time I made a joke it would be obvious.
Now if you had a drug that would make everyone think then I'd dump it into the water supply myself.
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<A drug that would cause them to be UNABLE, mostly, to disagree with you.
Well, not to mess up your analogy here, but religious people do seem to be able to disagree with each other. Quite, um, vigorously, in some cases.
Disagreement
For the most part, though, it's usually not with the people who gave them the drug.
Think about the rest of the questions, though. How do you feel about it?