(November 3, 2015 at 9:45 pm)MTL Wrote:(November 3, 2015 at 7:08 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I'd much rather moderation in any belief be encouraged, even if that means the believers are being less-than-honest by cherry-picking.
How else do you expect to defang a faith?
I would prefer that moderate was all that any religion EVER was.
Once again, if religion wasn't so atrocious, I probably wouldn't waste my time opposing it, at all.
But since the Abrahamic religions, at least, are NOT usually moderate, at their core, whatsoever,
it baffles me why decent, ordinary people think its okay to align themselves with it, whatsoever.
There is no need.
None of it has been proven to be true.
They can still believe in God without all the dogmatic garbage, if they want to.
And since it is supposed to be in service of the Divine,
ignoring the flaws in its integrity, to me, is incomprehensible.
If you're talking about the flaws in their books, I agree. I also think all three of them are equally atrocious, and singling out Islam on that basis is curious, to put it mildly.
No one here is supporting any of those faiths, so I'm not sure why you replied to that effect, having quoted me.
