http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22924256-29277,00.html
Stabbed to death for...being a scientist. Best part? The guy was only given a 5 year sentence (eligible to get out in 3) because he was "of good character".
Thanks Aussies, you've shown us it's not a serious crime to stab an "evolutionist" if you're drunk but "of good character".
So, should we rethink our stance on R&S?
2007-12-14 01:49:04 · 20 answers · asked by Skalite 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No one on R&S is gonna pop through my computer screen and stab me. I have kinda given up arguing with creationists though. You can't teach an old dog new tricks, and you can't teach a chrisitian common sense.
2007-12-14 01:59:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't think we should rethink our stance on R&S. There are great people who believe in Creationalism. Ones without knives too. This is just a situation where arguing leads to violence.
The disturbing poing of this article is this line: "The offender is a person of good character and the offence is a complete aberration."
The offender killed someone over an ARGUEMENT. Both groups were in the wrong for not stepping away from the "discussion". But the one who committed murder is good and the one hurt is the messed up one? Something doesn't smell right.
This stereotype should stop. Believers are as capable of doing bad crimes as the rest of us. It shouldn't be used to help them. Believing doesn't prove you are a good law abiding citizen just like being atheists doesn't prove you are not. What people do and act is a real indicator of their character.
2007-12-14 02:10:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I agree with you but just in a different way. I think that everyone is like that in some way or another. No one likes to be proven wrong because of the whole ego thing. But there are other things that are so irrelevent that I could scream. I am tired of hearing "which came first the chicken or the egg". Does it really matter what happened during that time at all? In what way will it really change anything that is happening now?I think we sould focus on "real issues" that everyone has right now. Instead of pouring money into something that none of us will really benifit from. I would rather have a cure for a disease than know that the fried chicken I am eating right now came before the scrambled egg I ate this morning.
2016-05-23 22:26:50 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I think he knew that the knife was in his hand ... but he did not actually turn his mind to the potentially serious consequences of doing this."
-Justice Michael Adams
Does this guy really believe that a person who stabbed somebody else wasn't aware of the consequences? And that such a person should be released back into society? That seems odd to me.
EDIT: I don't think we need to rethink our stance on R&S. It'd be pretty hard for someone to track me down and stab me based on an internet argument.
2007-12-14 01:53:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
No.I wouldn't change anything.Instead, take a page out of the religious stance that you hold true to what you know and when you are killed or persecuted then you shall be remembered for being a martyr.The more they fight us the more they prove that we are correct.People don't fight that hard if they know they are right over something so simplistic as what science proves to us.What they fight over is faith in the unseen and unproven, and they do so because they know they have the weaker side of the debate.
2007-12-14 01:57:10 · answer #5 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It just proves that Creationists don't have any morals. They gave them up long ago in order to defend their lies. There's a reason in Kitzmiller v. Dover, they turned to threats against the plaintiffs when the case was filed, lies that narrowly evaded a perjury charge during the proceedings, and death threats against the judge when they lost. There is no reason to cower. If they continue their current path, they will be classified as terrorists.
2007-12-14 12:42:33 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read the article it appears as if it was a case of mutual combat/overdone self-defense. Two drunks knife-fighting in a trailer park is not going to change any stance of mine-except maybe towards boozing.
2007-12-14 01:57:16 · answer #7 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Maybe we need to rethink our position on the sanity of Judges.
Somebody who gets drunk and stabs people is certainly not somebody of good character.
Maybe judges need to be drug tested and undergo psychiatric evaluation.
2007-12-14 02:00:58 · answer #8 · answered by Buke 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely NOT!!!
We have to work harder than ever, as the case in Dover, PA shows... Reason CAN win over the forces of ignorance and superstition!
Even the Bush-appointed federal judge had to admit the creationism was garbage!
2007-12-14 01:53:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
My stance has always been that believers are horribly dangerous.
Their words are of love and hate, their actions are of love and hate. Too bad I don't think any of them know what love is, only the hate.
They are crazies. No rational consistency.
Fear the religious. They WILL kill you to silence you.
2007-12-14 02:54:36 · answer #10 · answered by The J Man 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋