padraic Wrote:Quote:It takes as much strength of character to be a Christian in a Muslim theocracy as it does to be an atheist in a southern hick town.
A belief takes no courage.Wearing one's beliefs (or lack of them) on one's sleeve in a hostile environment requires a special mix of arrogance,bloody mindedness and plain stupidity.
It also requires a certain level of strength of character if it is dangerous to wear it on one's sleeves and yet there is conviction that doing so materially advances the cause of that belief. I would not described many civil rights marchers in the terms of arrogance, bloody mindedness or plain stupidity rather than strength of character.
