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A quote from Richard Dawkins: "There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out."

Do some people in here try too hard to accommodate other people's beliefs?

Do you agree with Dawkins suggestion?

Every time a walk past an "angel bookshop" I see evidence of the truth in what he is saying.

2007-05-27 01:35:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Personally I think that's what agnostics are being. Too open-minded. Pick a side already! =P

2007-05-27 01:38:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I guess I am.

I suppose Dawkins was speaking figurably there. If not, I would have to disagree with him.

I am not always too accomodating. I have made a few people mad. But usually I try to avoid controversy and trivial arguements.

I don't think I have ever seen an "angel bookshop", so I am not sure what you point is there.

2007-05-27 01:49:31 · answer #2 · answered by harridan5 4 · 0 0

Personally I tend to put Richard Dawkins in the same category as the Christian Right, which is "Religious Nutcase". In his case, his religion is the lack of religion. Richard Dawkins is a fundamentalist atheist, and just at the other end of the scale to the Christian fundamentalists. He's just as extremist in his views denouncing religion as those extremists who express their views supporting religion.

2007-05-27 01:50:31 · answer #3 · answered by Valarian 4 · 1 0

Believes are fine but sometimes the worry is that people mistake everyday occurrences or something that could be put down to scientific fact, for a miracle, something divine a ghost or some type of supernatural phenomenon, ive known people to go to bed thinking about their churches, they will then dream about something to do with god, they wake and think that god has spoken to them, it never enters their head that it was the brains way of picking through the thoughts pre sleep, and then they tell their church buddies and they all think its something divine, no one points out the obvious.

2007-05-27 01:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by butterfly01_2004 2 · 0 0

One just might as easily argue that there is such a thing as being too closed-minded.

How do you measure such a thing?

Look at the polarities on gay marriage.

Doesn't your judgment of another's opinion depend upon how close or far they are from yours? If you deem them too permissive then you say they are too open-minded, and if too restrictive you say they are too closed-minded?

For Dawkins' statement to stand he would need to spell out an objective structure as a reference with which we can all compare opinions.

He's not done that, and I submit no one can.

Not one which we will -all- accept as "objective".

And that just goes to prove my point. "Open-mindedness" is a purely subjective concept, and as such any effort to grade its value will produce purely subjective results.

2007-05-27 02:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Interesting question. I think when I first got here, I tried too hard to bring tolerance and understanding among people.. as you put it, tried too hard to accommodate.
I learned my lesson pretty quickly and stopped trying to be so nice. It's worked out much better for me since.

2007-05-27 01:43:26 · answer #6 · answered by Kallan 7 · 1 0

Absolutely!

2007-05-27 01:41:34 · answer #7 · answered by Miltant_Agnostic 2 · 0 0

Well, I'd say yes. I've seen some awfully stupid, ignorant, and downright WRONG stuff on here. Lots of people just seem to eat it up.

2007-05-27 01:43:58 · answer #8 · answered by mgentryholt 2 · 0 0

Open minded as to be realistic its ok...but not untill your brains drop out and become unrealistic!!!

2007-05-27 01:51:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I do believe that sometimes "tolerance" is just in fact moral cowardice and an unwillingness to confront something that is just plain wrong.

2007-05-27 01:39:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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