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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I don’t care whether or not anyone believes in God, I think a belief in the sacred and the divine leads to more openness, humility, and gentle curiosity in the world than not.  A wholehearted belief in science is not better, it’s just more valued in a society that lionizes masculine qualities and characteristics and maligns feminine qualities and characteristics. [/quote]

Have you looked around at the religious people (Christians) in America?  They are not known for their openness, humility or curiosity.
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I don’t consider hateful “Christians” to be admirable in any way, nor do I think we should be emulating these people or their belief systems.  My comment speaks to the fact that [b]we consider a very narrow belief in god to be the only available way to believe,[/b] at the exclusion of innumerable other ways to explore faith - we all lose when this is the case.  [/quote]

Correct -- we can believe in fairies and goblins and all sort of imaginary beings.[/quote]

Genuinely curious, why do you try to make every thread about yourself?[/quote]

NP -- I don't see how this comment elicits this response.  This is not the view of one person.   It is a commonly held view among non-believers that the supernatural is imaginary.

OK - so "faith" has been helpful to you.  Many don't see it that way. That doesn't make them selfish or stupid or less evolved.  It makes them different from you.[/quote]

Snark about fairies and goblins is making it about themselves, just saying. [/quote]

mention of fairies and goblins and other beings like God and angels is not snark and is not self centered.   It's a fact that God and any beings beyond nature are in the same category.  Some are good, some are bad -- according to the personalities that human have given them -- but they are all beyond nature.[/quote]

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