(February 1, 2016 at 5:18 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: I think you should be allowed to be religious. I don't think you should be allowed to talk about certain aspects of it, namely the hateful parts of it that make you consider certain groups of people your enemy(in certain cases everyone who doesn't adhere to your religion). Can you reasonably tell me how that's wrong?
Because your subjective opinion about what's hateful is just that---hateful.
I would say that your idea that people's freedom of speech should be curtailed like this is hateful. In your scenario you are doing the same thing to religious people.
We counter hateful ideas with better words and ideas, not with force.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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