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[holly_evolving]

Some of you may have noticed that I occasionally sound imaptient with religion. This is intentional. People like those behind "Expelled" are among the reasons why I have absolutey no patience with doctrine or dogma.

Why Intelligent Design Isn't Science: http://www.expelledexposed.com/


And if you would like me to have a more open-minded voice, please remember that I do, when I'm not on my livejournal. But this is my place to say what I really think, and what I really think is that religion is as much a crutch as drug abuse. I will mock it as I please. If you don't like it, don't read it.
I do care how my religious friends feel. But I'm not going to pretend I feel differently than I do in my own space just to protect their feelings. This is who I am.

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[cosmic-hiccup.livejournal.com]

I'm used to it. When we were planning the wedding and I said that of course it was going to be at our church, my father used the word "superstition" in his response.


That said, the last thing I need is high-profile intellectuals that I've respected trying to turn something that isn't science into science. As a religious person who is also devoted to science, I find it insulting when people insist that I can't accept both. God is bigger than the box you try to put him in, man.

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

Superstition? Wow, I would never say that to someone planning a wedding. Like I said, I wouldn't even say this stuff at all except in my LJ, or among people who think the same way about it, and even then it's behind a cut, avoidable.
I don't want to push my views onto someone else any more than I want someone else's pushed on me.

I think what your dad said was pretty disrespectful...although I wasn't there and don't really know the context.

[cosmic-hiccup.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even offended. In fact, if he'd said anything else it would have been weird. I know what he thinks of religion, I know my mother and I befuddle him, and you can't argue matters of faith, so we don't in my house. The religious belief situation in the Richlin house is unique.