Mostly Harmless

A little video to explain why I don't get steamed up about Christians, especially the Church of England.

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[1140Cecile]

Just turn them into pubs that allow smoking and they'll be packed to the rafters.

[Elenkhos]

You better recruit more members to the Church of England or our worst nightmare may come true and every church's pews will be ripped out to make space for prayer rugs.

[bryanstrain]

i live in the bible belt and i wish it was dying here but its not. feel lucky you live in a place where its not everywhere around you. there are probably 50 or 60 in the town i live in. and its a fairly small town. i would love to see them demolished and put the property to better use.

[woodenmajor]

i find that argueing with a woman is often like trying to herd a flock of cats ,they no more respect logic ,reason or semantics than do religious appologists .woman that are shareing your bed are even more likely to run roughshod over any rules of ethical debate or indeed ,of remainung even within its current scope.

plus , they hold a trump card that causes one to with-hold the winning ,double shotted broadside ,for fear of causeing such damage as to make even boarding the prize ,pointless .

[spick1923]

I get steamed up about dogma in general,

But I Suspect all of it is the result of language and mentality.

Control the Language, manipulate the mentality...

[DavidMTRutten]

"..twelve step program of humans anonymous."

Brilliant. Actually made my laugh out loud, which I practically never do while alone.

[dawgsmycopilot]

I used to think that- that it must be a problem everywhere, but the more people I meet from other places, the more I see it isn't. It's just us. You didn't say whether you are American, but I am. I form opinions of people based on what I see them do mostly, and that's how I got such a low opinion of my fellow Americans. No amount of "treating people as individuals" can fix that. Education maybe, but not how I approach them.

[ratholin]

but but gypsies are cool. like one predicted I'd have monetary problems and suddenly I couldn't find my wallet.

[bishop8000]

I refrain from thinking anything at all about people due to national or ethnic identity or age. It's not out of virtue, those are things that simply can't be changed so they can't be accurate tools of judgment. My judgments of an individual are made by the choices of that individual - clothes, body language, etiquette, hygiene, behavior etc.

[MartinJWillett]

So you refrain from thinking anything at all about people do you? What a paragon of misguided virtue!

[bishop8000]

If people were rigidly logical like that, then there would be no problem. But as soon as one starts stereotyping, that stereotype inevitably spills over onto the individuals, especially at first. That's just human nature. If you pass someone on the street and you know nothing else about them aside from their national identity, you'll start making judgments about them based on the stereotype you've constructed and that isn't fair or accurate. It's not a high horse, just the facts as I see them.

[MartinJWillett]

Of course people should be treated as individuals. Supermarkets treat their customers as individuals too but this does not stop them employing statisticians to anticipate their behaviour. Please climb off your high horse before you do somebody a mischief.

There is no problem with stereotypes at all. Seriously. The only issues arise when people expect people to match their initial stereotypes and they discount the evidence of the individual and cling to the stereotype of the group. I don't.