To intelligent people, perhaps. I could care less about the others except for when they need to be put back in their place, which (unfortunately) is more often than I would like.
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Originally Posted by Trunks
TK-423 I have to disagree. Solidus is right on the money when it comes to improving society as a whole, because fact is, like it or not, religion is slowing down our progress. For hundreds of years the Church persecuted has brutally killed scientists/researchers for daring to challenge the church's views. Is that not sickening as well? Without religion, there would be a lot less wars, and substantially more people would be thinking thinking rationally.
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Critical thinking would still be a rarity for the simple reason that most people don't make the effort to approach the world rationally: emotionality is rampant and partly responsible for the constant wars and (ironically) immoral actions perpetrated in the name of (for example) Islam and other equally pointless belief systems. Make no mistake: I tolerate your beliefs insofar as they do not impede on my personal liberties, but I strongly object to such nonsense anyway.
The faster we do away with these archaic systems, the sooner we will be free from 'our' crutches and ready to continue our evolution as a species.