Why the parent post was modded "insightful" is beyond me, since I don't see it as particularly insightful to declare all fundamentalists to be of sub-human intelligence--it is perhaps comforting to think so, but blatantly false. He then draws a casual connection between fundamentalist Islamic terrorist groups and ID supporters. Those are two completely seperate issues! Not only that, but ID supporters don't even fit the definition of fundamentalism, because they aren't supporting a strict, literal interpretation of a fundamental religious work. Even though there might be fundamentalists who say they support ID, but have ulterior motives, ID is NOT fundamentalism.
Not only is this post's conclusions laid upon shaky logic and false connections, its bad policy. If you see the issue as a "battle" of cultures, its a damn poor strategy to assume that your enemy is incapable of rational thought. I also have to point out the irony of calling them intellectually inferior hypocrites incapable of recognizing their own hypocrisy when you yourself don't use the "higher-order reasoning" that you claim they lack.
Personally, I think they don't see their own hipocrisy because 1) they do not want to, and it doesn't support their concept of wright and wrong to do so 2) "they" are really a large, diverse group of people who all live in very different circumstances from both myself and eachother (I realize I did lump them all in the same group with my first reason, but its hard not to sometimes.)
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Why the parent post was modded "insightful" is beyond me, since I don't see it as particularly insightful to declare all fundamentalists to be of sub-human intelligence--it is perhaps comforting to think so, but blatantly false. He then draws a casual connection between fundamentalist Islamic terrorist groups and ID supporters. Those are two completely seperate issues! Not only that, but ID supporters don't even fit the definition of fundamentalism, because they aren't supporting a strict, literal interpretation of a fundamental religious work. Even though there might be fundamentalists who say they support ID, but have ulterior motives, ID is NOT fundamentalism. Not only is this post's conclusions laid upon shaky logic and false connections, its bad policy. If you see the issue as a "battle" of cultures, its a damn poor strategy to assume that your enemy is incapable of rational thought. I also have to point out the irony of calling them intellectually inferior hypocrites incapable of recognizing their own hypocrisy when you yourself don't use the "higher-order reasoning" that you claim they lack. Personally, I think they don't see their own hipocrisy because 1) they do not want to, and it doesn't support their concept of wright and wrong to do so 2) "they" are really a large, diverse group of people who all live in very different circumstances from both myself and eachother (I realize I did lump them all in the same group with my first reason, but its hard not to sometimes.)