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Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by mgaunard on Friday December 22, 2023 @11:49AM (#38735957)
I'm an atheist; I've read and studied the Bible as part of my catholic education 25 years ago.

Not that I'm strongly against it, but my attention is challenged by many things, and a man who starts an article about becoming a father with a clear sex-is-for-procreation Bible quote makes it sound like his experience of life is not relevant to mine.

Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by galdosdi on Friday December 22, 2023 @02:09PM (#38737447)
You're behaving foolishly. If you spend just a moment looking at it you'd see the author isn't even taking the religious text he's quoting seriously! So your great fear of accidentally interacting with a religious individual is overblown.

Well, since you chose not to read it, and continue to choose thusly in similar situations, you'll never really be able to confirm or deny whether or not"his experience of life is relevant" to yours. Not sure what the point of engaging in discussion on an article you admit to refusing to read is...

So you are basically refusing to read this simply because the author is even willing to be aware of what's in the bible. What a bizarre and anti intellectual stance.

I've been seeing this strange kind of attitude more lately -- for example, I encountered a young person who refused to read books that were more than 20 years old "because they might have bigoted ideas in them since they're old"

But avoiding reading about the past because it scares you is a great way to remain stupid and cede control of the world to others without such hangups.

> God smote Onan, starting a 4,000-year-old tradition of religious people getting angry about wasting sperm on anything other than procreative sex.

Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by mgaunard on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:27PM (#38738870)
I'm not "refusing" to read it. I just reacted on a comment.
Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by galdosdi on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @08:19PM (#38777998)
Please don't comment on articles that you are unwilling to engage with beyond the headline alone. This is part of HN's rules to keep the discussion from being so superficial
Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by briansm on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:09AM (#38742050)
I dunno. 'Ignorance is Bliss'. I only have so much brain capacity and attention, I'd rather direct it to what's important to me than leave it wide open to the sewage-infected firehose of incoming information that is life in the 21st Century.

An article who's title implies the inevitability of parenthood is probably not good mental fodder.

Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by galdosdi on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @08:19PM (#38777993)
Oh, it didn't interest you enough to read? But it did interest you enough to comment!
Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by koliber on Friday December 22, 2023 @03:24PM (#38738230)
In the paragraphs that follow he goes on to explain how people twisted their god's intent while writing the bible, at least on this particular topic.
Re:In the Long Run, We're All Dad by tasuki on Friday December 22, 2023 @05:47PM (#38739482)
> a man who starts an article about becoming a father with a clear sex-is-for-procreation Bible quote makes it sound like his experience of life is not relevant to mine

It's not like he believes any of it. He just quotes the bible because that makes for a funnier article.