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Quote by: luke virtual kh  Try and care about their beliefs too. Thats part of the responsibility of civic life. Is a virus ok, so long as your personal hard drive is safe? Think of the damage to society, and also the momentum of civilisation, (& remember how 'civilised' the prophets were in their political affairs). |
A computer virus is not OK, because it is destructive. Even if my hard drive is safe, a computer virus is not OK.
Evangelical young Earth creationism is not OK. I like your analogy. It is like a contagious disease, mainly forced upon kids by parents, but with a little help from their local preacher.
If people want to believe foolishness, that is up to them, and is their problem, not mine. When people start lobbying to teach foolishness in schools, or going around saying that people are going to go to hell for believing the wrong thing, or whatever other bit of craziness they come up with, then that is no longer just their problem. Now, they have made it my problem, and I am not OK with that.
How do we fight against it? By exposing their foolishness for what it is.