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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on April 19, 2018, 07:11:17 AM
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DetlefK (12,318 posts)
What does a religious person call somebody who believes something different?
What does a religious person call somebody who believes something different?
Believers have different words for such people: schismatics, heretics, pagans, infidels...
What does a scientist call another scientist who thinks that a different theory is correct?
Colleague.
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You DUmp monkeys call people fundies so. :whatever:
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Unless one of those scientists is a "climate denier" then it is :angryvillagers: time.
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Hardly, there is no bitter, vitriolic lifelong-hatred bitch-fight like one between two scientists with different theories in the same field. They might say 'Colleague' but it'll be dripping with sarcasm and spite, and accompanied by words like charlatan, fraud, huckster, and fool.
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What does a scientist call another scientist who thinks that a different theory is correct?
Colleague.
You're an idiot.
They usually call them "wrong".
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Unless one of those scientists is a "climate denier" then it is :angryvillagers: time.
or argues for Intelligent Design.
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The common word to use is "unbeliever". That doesn't fit the primitives' agenda, so it would be dismissed for what they imagine would be the words used.
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Another common name is charcoal briquettes.
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schismatics, heretics, pagans, infidels
Contrary to "DetlefK" ignorant claim, those words aren't used much in Evangelical Christian circles. The words all have meanings much less lurid than the image he's trying to conjure, but they just don't enter into teaching and discussion that much.
"Infidels" seems more associated with Muslims; an equivalent that is used among Christians would be "unbeliever". But "unbeliever" is a descriptive word, not an epithet or mockery. And much as "DetlefK" would reject it - based on the tone of his post - "unbeliever" is usually used to express love, concern, and caring for people Christians see as having a need (a need they themselves once had).
"Schismatic" is used very occasionally, I believe, among Catholics to describe some person or group who has split off from the Catholic Church. It's kind of an ivory-tower level word rather than a pew-level word. I suppose, being a Protestant, that I could be called a "schismatic".
"Heretic" or "Heresy" are used occasionally among Evangelicals, usually in some apologetics context. I think the same is true among Catholics. It's not used as an epithet or insult. It's a word that refers to a teaching or teacher of same that is contrary to Christian teaching and is causing division in a congregation or among Christians more generally.
"Pagan" is also used occasionally among Evangelicals, usually in reference to people who have thus self-identified.
I doubt "DetlefK" is around enough Christians often enough to know how we speak.
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Every bad name they can think of?
Do I win anything?