"Invisible Sky Man"... right, because humanity having never gone further than our own moon can definitively state that no such entity could possibly exist within the expanse of the universe? I have no problem with Atheist believing that there is no God and I also do not go out of their way to mock them for their beliefs just because they defer from my own. Whether you agree with someone's beliefs or not, unless you know EVERYTHING about the entire universe you would be wiser to respect others for their own beliefs and not mock them. That being said... speaking as a Christian myself, I certainly do have issues with members of my own community demanding teaching creation in schools along side of evolution in a science class. Do I believe that "God" created the universe? Sure... but I am not going to try to pretend to try to understand or explain how he did it based off of a couple of chapters in the Bible and throw that up against modern day science in an education environment. What is essential to my faith is the belief that God created the universe, not how he did it...
Moving on, your statement "Educated people ask questions and conservatism doesn't like to be questioned" would seem to fly in the face of what we have seen in the media where it has been liberal and progressives that have worked themselves into a frenzy trying to shut down opposing conservative views. Let your idea win on it's own merits, not because you shut down opposing viewpoints. To be fair, I think there are extremist on both sides of the aisle that try to shut down dissenting view points but as a whole, the progressive liberal movement seems to have taken this to a new level at the University college level. Our public Universities should be about the free and open exchange of ideas regardless of whether we agree with them or not. If you want to go to an echo chamber for your education that reinforces your particular ideology that is great, there are private schools where you can pay your hard earned money to have your views reinforced. What conservatives are tired of is tax payer funding going towards indoctrination into leftist ideology at their expense.
Also, having lived in "rural" country with small town values and now living in the "Scary Liberal City" of the Bay Area, I can tell you I infinitely prefer the small town values of the country over the big city values. To each their own is what I say and I'm more than happy to keep city lovers stay in the city for what they consider to be a "superior" way of life. Just stop moving out into the suburbs where prime farmland is constantly being turned into suburbia by people trying to leave the expensive city that they have to work two jobs just to afford a shoebox of an apartment.
Your entire thread seems to be about mocking others that don't belief what you belief or haven't experienced or prefer your lifestyle to others. You have demonstrated that you are intolerant of different ideas and incapable of respecting others that hold them.
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"Invisible Sky Man"... right, because humanity having never gone further than our own moon can definitively state that no such entity could possibly exist within the expanse of the universe? I have no problem with Atheist believing that there is no God and I also do not go out of their way to mock them for their beliefs just because they defer from my own. Whether you agree with someone's beliefs or not, unless you know EVERYTHING about the entire universe you would be wiser to respect others for their own beliefs and not mock them. That being said... speaking as a Christian myself, I certainly do have issues with members of my own community demanding teaching creation in schools along side of evolution in a science class. Do I believe that "God" created the universe? Sure... but I am not going to try to pretend to try to understand or explain how he did it based off of a couple of chapters in the Bible and throw that up against modern day science in an education environment. What is essential to my faith is the belief that God created the universe, not how he did it...
Moving on, your statement "Educated people ask questions and conservatism doesn't like to be questioned" would seem to fly in the face of what we have seen in the media where it has been liberal and progressives that have worked themselves into a frenzy trying to shut down opposing conservative views. Let your idea win on it's own merits, not because you shut down opposing viewpoints. To be fair, I think there are extremist on both sides of the aisle that try to shut down dissenting view points but as a whole, the progressive liberal movement seems to have taken this to a new level at the University college level. Our public Universities should be about the free and open exchange of ideas regardless of whether we agree with them or not. If you want to go to an echo chamber for your education that reinforces your particular ideology that is great, there are private schools where you can pay your hard earned money to have your views reinforced. What conservatives are tired of is tax payer funding going towards indoctrination into leftist ideology at their expense.
Also, having lived in "rural" country with small town values and now living in the "Scary Liberal City" of the Bay Area, I can tell you I infinitely prefer the small town values of the country over the big city values. To each their own is what I say and I'm more than happy to keep city lovers stay in the city for what they consider to be a "superior" way of life. Just stop moving out into the suburbs where prime farmland is constantly being turned into suburbia by people trying to leave the expensive city that they have to work two jobs just to afford a shoebox of an apartment.
Your entire thread seems to be about mocking others that don't belief what you belief or haven't experienced or prefer your lifestyle to others. You have demonstrated that you are intolerant of different ideas and incapable of respecting others that hold them.