JABbering Stooge

SHE is shrieeeking again. Why? This:

In a recent debate with principals from two religious schools I was accused of being driven by emotions masquerading as reason. But if we hypothesise for a moment that they are right, then surely the same is true of them. And if that’s the case, who should we listen to?

It is precisely to avoid such conflicts that schools should provide a safe haven from all ideologies, with the obvious codicil that children should learn as much about as many of them as possible from an objective point of view.

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And that’s fine. But does this not make it all the more important for schools to be free of religious influence? Children need to be able to meet and get to know their peers on neutral ground. Religions by their nature always run the risk of creating an “us against them” scenario. However tolerant we believe ourselves to be, there is always a reason people consider their own religion superior to all others.

One of the school system’s most important functions is to create a feeling of community, where all are treated on equal terms regardless of race, class or creed. Society’s way of treating children with the respect they deserve is to combat by all available means any sense of an “us against them” divide.

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Nobody should have to form an opinion on matters of such weight before they are ready to size up the arguments. Above all, children should be kept away from anything that bears even the slightest whiff of indoctrination. In fact, freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.

You can hear the SHRIEEEEKING all the way from Ottawa…

Indoctrination for me and not for thee. That’s what it amounts to.

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But Humanists are a special breed of people who think more clearly than the rest of us. Since their opinions are the fruit of reason, not faith, their derision and marginalization of religion is enlightening and liberating, not divisive. If only the poor benighted fundamentalists could overcome their indoctrination and their silly fairytale beliefs, they could see the error of their ways and we could all be as one and they could finally stop fomenting that “us against them” mentality. Religion is a plague on society. Humanism unites people under all one creed — that of reason.

There is no sense of superiority in humanism whatsoever.

My, you can see the sarcasm dripping off of that last sentence.

Naturally, I had to respond.

In case it doesn’t make it past HER new reality-distortion field, the full response is below the fold.

But Humanists are a special breed of people who think more clearly than the rest of us. Since their opinions are the fruit of reason, not faith, their derision and marginalization of religion is enlightening and liberating, not divisive. If only the poor benighted fundamentalists could overcome their indoctrination and their silly fairytale beliefs, they could see the error of their ways and we could all be as one and they could finally stop fomenting that “us against them” mentality. Religion is a plague on society. Humanism unites people under all one creed — that of reason.

You DO realize how ridiculous you sound there, right? No? Here let me help you:

But Christians are a special breed of people who are more moral than the rest of us. Since their opinions are the fruit of faith, not reason, their derision and marginalization of people who believe in other religions or (especially) people who believe in no religion is enlightening and liberating, not divisive. If only the poor amoral “if it feels good, do it” heathens could overcome their delusion and their rebellion against God, they could see the error of their ways and we could all be as one and they could finally stop fomenting that “us against them” mentality. Atheism is a plague on society. Christianity unites people under all one creed — that of faith."

Nope, no arrogance or smug, condescending, preening, inflated sense of moral superiority on the part of Suzie-All-Caps. No siree.