Comments on: Secular Apocalypses https://www.isegoria.net/2013/07/secular-apocalypses/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 21:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Faze https://www.isegoria.net/2013/07/secular-apocalypses/comment-page-1/#comment-896898 Faze Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:13:45 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32159#comment-896898 We think that the choice is religion vs. no religion, but in truth it’s one religion vs another. All of our belief systems rest on unprovable assumptions, group approval, and rituals of affirmation. As Bob Dylan sang, “you gotta serve somebody …”

]]> By: CMOT https://www.isegoria.net/2013/07/secular-apocalypses/comment-page-1/#comment-896327 CMOT Mon, 08 Jul 2013 03:54:18 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=32159#comment-896327 Noticed this a while ago. I call it Blue-ism, since most of it seems to fall on the blue side of the red-blue political debate.

The anger over the Keystone XL pipeline makes a lot more sense when you realize that opponents think that tar sands oil is not made from atoms, but from from e-v-i-l.

You can’t have a rational argument with bluist folks about guns, because rational people think guns are made from atoms, while bluists know they are made from e-v-i-l,.

I could go on. Ironically, their religion is all the more intolerarent becasue it insists its not a religion.

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