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Originally Posted by CannabWizard
well who is to say your beliefs are right? wasn't your place to "offset it a bit".
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but you see, it
IS my place.
this is the world we live in, a world dominated by religious ignorance. These people (the confident religious) run this planet with the leisure fortune that they are the majority, and so they feel their vast numbers make them right and that makes it OK to impose there will upon others.
so you say I did the same thing: I imposed my belief that god does not exist onto this little girl, maybe so, and you are right.. Who is to say that I'm right about my opinion of the existence of god. no one.. I won't come into this topic with the audacity to say that I
know I'm right..
however, what I did was offset (a tiny fraction) of what this girl is going to continue to have pounded into her head for the next 7 years. and I can confidently say that the mother of this girl is
NOT right, and that alone is reason enough to do what I did. If she's lucky, my comment, in a few years when this girl is old enough to think rationally, may make her think that just maybe all of her beliefs that mommy taught her should be evaluated. That was my reason for doing what I did.
I feel like in this world, where you have the dominant religious stopping at nothing (going door to door, dooping innocent children, etc) to build upon their legion of ignorance, that I an atheist (an extreme minority) need to do my part in off setting this madness.
and hey, when it comes down to it, this girl is going to be raised a Jehovah's witness, a false belief that she may very well base her entire life on.. does this mean nothing to you? She has already had the will of her mother imposed on her.. that's been done and will continue to be done, again I ask, do you really just leave it at that? The innocence of a little girl.. based on a technicality?