RE: Religions are not equals
April 26, 2017 at 7:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2017 at 7:32 pm by Regina.)
I agree, religions are not equal.
There's all kinds of factors that play into it - the political presence or status of the religion, what the religion teaches and how that plays out in public life, how many adherents it has, how compatible it is with other beliefs and/or modern life.
Comparing Islam to Jainism, for example, there's no comparison. One has near-two billion followers, preaches distrust of nobelievers and it's leaders are currently vehemently anti-secular and often violent, the other has several million tops and the more extreme you are in it the more peaceful you are. Big difference.
The one thing that should be consistent when discussing any religion though, even the current most dangerous one, is that rights are for people and not for beliefs. Regardless of your religion, I will defend your basic human rights because as a human being you deserve that much. What I won't defend is your beliefs, or entertain the idea that society should change to accommodate your beliefs just because it's "faith" and you consider it noble.
There's all kinds of factors that play into it - the political presence or status of the religion, what the religion teaches and how that plays out in public life, how many adherents it has, how compatible it is with other beliefs and/or modern life.
Comparing Islam to Jainism, for example, there's no comparison. One has near-two billion followers, preaches distrust of nobelievers and it's leaders are currently vehemently anti-secular and often violent, the other has several million tops and the more extreme you are in it the more peaceful you are. Big difference.
The one thing that should be consistent when discussing any religion though, even the current most dangerous one, is that rights are for people and not for beliefs. Regardless of your religion, I will defend your basic human rights because as a human being you deserve that much. What I won't defend is your beliefs, or entertain the idea that society should change to accommodate your beliefs just because it's "faith" and you consider it noble.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
