Janesville, Wisconsin Student Shocks Class by Tearing Page From Bible. Makes a good point, but he’s also an ass.

This subject comes up time and time again: Respect for other people’s feelings/beliefs/thoughts and the golden rule of treating others as you would like to be treated.

But it’s total BS.

No one’s opinions, not even mine, should be respected or held above reproach without any evidence or proof. Hell, even with proof there should some questions every so often about whether the evidence was really right or if we made a mistake.

Saying that I should respect your religion is like saying I should respect your opinion that getting the flu vaccine is more dangerous than not getting it. It’s just factually not true, no matter how many anecdotes there are, the data doesn’t lie. My opinion that everyone should be vaccinated should be respected because I can prove I’m right.

That doesn’t mean no one should question me, and I wouldn’t get angry if someone did. I encourage it, in fact, because it only makes me feel more strongly. If someone can prove me wrong, I’d welcome it since it’s worse to be wrong and feel right than to change your mind in the right direction.

Religious people can’t prove anything, so there’s no respect to be had. The fact that they lie to their kids time and time again only serves to make me disrespect them more. I applaud the boy in Janesville, Wisconsin who tore pages out of the bible for showing that he won’t be intimidated by religious beliefs. I hate him though because he sounds like such an ass by saying “you’re stupid little minds”. There’s no need to do that, the message was already clear in his assignment without it. What a douche bag.

I would have ripped a page out of a book about santa claus and said “It’s my book, so what do I care? Santa’s not real, so why shouldn’t I tear the page out?” then do the same thing with the bible, though much much more politely.

Don’t be an ass about it. Leave that to the christian girl who left the school in response to him