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Author: NimmerStill

Jun 11th 2012 at 2:44:58 PM

@Sligh, you address my posts as if I'm the sponsor. I'm not. Check the names more carefully.

1. When it comes to good and evil, especially in the media, *most people* believing it had better make it so, because there's no other criterion that you can base it on.

2. As I said above, my understanding of the trope is that it simply *does not apply* to those behaviors that religions encourage but which are considered either. That still does not diminish the applicability of the trope.

And the correct analogy is not to "religious but reasonable" but to something like "scientific but irrational", since science specifically encourages rationality the way religion encourages (what it considers) good behavior. "Religious but reasonable" wouldn't work no matter what your prejudices, because religions don't specifically encourage unreasonable behavior.

And as I said before, I am a secular thinker who does not perceive a lick of prejudice from the title. Plenty of alternatives have been proposed, so your continued argumentation against one particular point is indeed puzzling.