A very interesting discussion.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/liberali...imination/
The xtians, much as they hated it, have learned to deal with the fact that people are going to dismiss their bullshit. Islam is going to have to get over this chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that their bullshit cannot be criticized.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/liberali...imination/
Quote:Liberalism’s great challenge: How can we critique ideas while still protecting people from discrimination?
Quote:Freedom to question is what allowed modernity to emerge from the Dark Ages, when religion ruled with an iron sword. To put it more concretely, this intellectual freedom, coupled with the scientific method (which forces us to ask the questions that could prove us wrong) has brought us the industrial revolution, germ theory, and the information age. As we face the future on an overcrowded planet stripped bare by human need and greed, innovation—cultural, economic, and technological—is our only hope of averting collapse.
Quote:For centuries the Roman Catholic Church and derivative Protestant religions have done everything in their power to obstruct freedom of thought, inquiry, and speech—from destroying heathen temples and texts, to torturing and executing heretics on a mass scale, to imprisoning Galileo and killing other early scientists, to—in modern times—censoring books and homeschooling children and incessantly threatening hellfire whenever they feel their grip slipping.
Still today, a frightening minority of Christians want to impose their biblical worldview on the rest of us by any means necessary. And that worldview includes truly ghastly concepts—like holy war, chosen people, male headship, blasphemy, genital mutilation, blood sacrifice, and eternal torture—all given the imprint of righteous authority by an inerrant Bible or infallible pope invoking the name of God. Biblical theocracy would look more like Saudi Arabia than America in the 21st Century.
The xtians, much as they hated it, have learned to deal with the fact that people are going to dismiss their bullshit. Islam is going to have to get over this chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that their bullshit cannot be criticized.
