1. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #153710 by dannyhouk on April 1, 2008 at 10:37 pm

(note, I only read page 1 comments and page 12 comments before posting, so no thread continuity in my comment)

Don't all these comments in the forum, by Dawkins, and Stein/Mathis, all illustrate our common human natures, i.e. being hypocritical, self-serving, and extremely defensive of our ideas? The only good point I think Stein raises is "why do people get so defensive of their ideas?"

It's okay for people to attack our ideas, and its okay to be in the wrong. I think the real venom isn't about who was removed from the theater, who is being hypocritical, or who is being misleading, the venom is because people's core identities and reason for living is being attacked, both "religious" and "scientific" types. If anyone took two steps back from this debacle they could see that everyone involved is being defensive, pushy, slanderous, and vengeful. That is, they are using the same tactics stemming from the same motive for self-preservation.

I wonder what the evolutionary need for shame was?