Heh, I practically live by this. I'm often surrounded by overly-religious people, and I admit I didn't make that distinction in my post.
There are good-natured people everywhere in every demographic, but my main problem is with the overly-religious. Those that commit crimes, hate crimes, and even sin against thier own beliefs, and then hide behind thier religion, asserting that it protects them and allows them to act in such a way.
And then there are the overly-religious people that cannot form a coherent thought without considering thier chosen beliefs. There are such people that blatantly ignore science and reasoning and assert that it does not exist if not stated in thier religion. Those you can't form a thoughtful argument with, because they leap back to "My religion says otherwise".
I kind of hate arguing with these people because I like arguing (But not like heated arguments, I guess just like debates).
Good point. I'll admit I didn't look at your side of this argument, having never been a man of religion. Maybe I shouldn't have used the word "weapon" - its connotations are too grim for what I was going for. Uh, I can't really think of a better word (I was going to use "tool", but that implies you're being used and that's kind of not very nice).
And on a less srsargument note (but still related), I'm actually really happy we manged to debate about this in a civil manner. I just like arguing. Yeah, I don't see every point of view, but I'd like to, and that's what arguements are for. I think I can safely walk out of this arguement and know that today, both of us won and I walked out with newfound knowledge.
Oh, and ♥♥♥♥, thread derailment. I didn't think my post would spark such an outburst, but I suppose no one was hurt.
I... can't say it's very fun. I'm good at shooting people that are standing still/moving in a straight line, but if they start dogding, then I'll lag the crosshair behind them, trying to catch up, and I'll fire and I'll twitch my mouse toward thier head in some inane attempt to catch up and I'll end up shooting like a yard in front of them and then they start shooting me and then I rage-switch to scout.