Vanity Fair/60 Minutes recently conducted a poll that yielded some interesting results:
If some religious believers think the world would be better off with no religion, shouldn’t they just quit and do their bit to make the world a better place?
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Lithp
January 25, 2012 at 12:31 pm
Sure is cognitive dissonance in there.
The Wise Fool
January 25, 2012 at 2:05 pm
That is a bit strange, isn’t it?
What’s kind of surprising to me is the high rate of approval of religious diversity. It’s also pretty telling that the Evangelicals are significantly the lowest in favoring that diversity.
The Vicar (via Wordpress)
January 25, 2012 at 2:29 pm
That’s perfectly sensible. The response can be read as “I think the damage being done by other religions more than offsets the benefits from my religion.”
Remember, nobody ever thinks their own religion is bad. As Wittgenstein said: “If there were a verb meaning “to believe falsely,” it would not have any significant first person present indicative.”
(Kind of a pity he wasn’t able to take the next step from that idea and realize that the first person past participle would have been useful.)
Spanish Inquisitor
January 25, 2012 at 3:03 pm
I think it’s interesting that 15% of Catholics think we’d be better off with no religion. That says a lot, and I think it presents a wonderful potential source for atheists.
tommykey
January 25, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Well, you and I are certainly in debt to CAtholicism for our atheism!
desertscope
January 25, 2012 at 11:02 pm
Not ’til those other jerks quit theirs first!
Brian M
January 26, 2012 at 3:46 pm
as a side note, that image of the Pope really does look like Emperor Palpatine. Yikes.
Terry
March 13, 2012 at 3:41 pm
Over 40 years of poor Catholic cathechsim now showing its fruit. Sad.