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[–] BoiseNTheHood [S] 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Actually, it's a sane liberal begging their fellow leftists to stop being so intolerant, dismissive and condescending towards anyone who disagrees with them.

But thanks for providing a textbook example of the smugness that the writer is talking about. The left does not have an exclusive monopoly on "reason," and ridiculing anyone who disagrees with you is not "appealing to reason."

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[–] Kurplow 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

I didn't say the left had any sort of monopoly on reason--I know better--but this article is incredibly tedious, and so is arguing with you. The part of the left that does habitually appeal to reason finds a paucity of valid counter argument. No one can argue from facts and with logic as to why we should tolerate any sort of influence from supernatural religion in government or social policy, just as one example. I appeal to reason, the religious do not and cannot.

By the way, it is impossible that you haven't realized the author is describing the exact same, smug sense of intellectual authority with which you constantly regard leftists in general. I hope you can take a moment to realize just how often you resort to immediately ridiculing those you disagree with. Rightists in general do this constantly. Consider for a moment how many times you've used or read the word Libtard (or how often you have called Sanders senile, or uneducated, because he disagrees with you on economic terms).

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[–] BoiseNTheHood [S] 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

No one can argue from facts and with logic as to why we should tolerate any sort of influence from supernatural religion in government or social policy, just as one example. I appeal to reason, the religious do not and cannot.

That's a remarkably closed-minded and simplistic view. I agree that religion when taken to extremes should not influence the law. But I don't see it as reasonable to dismiss all of it entirely either. The Constitution - one of the most important documents in world history - was influenced in some ways by religion. Our bottom-up republican form of government had its roots in the system of "presbyteries" established by Reformed churches during the Reformation. Religion set the template for the American Revolution, played a key role in educating the colonists, and later helped movements like abolitionism and the civil rights movement. Without any religious influence at all, this country would be in a much different (and probably worse) place. So no, you are not appealing to reason when you write off religion as a force for good.