RE: Religions are not equals
April 27, 2017 at 12:06 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2017 at 12:08 pm by Crunchy.)
(April 26, 2017 at 10:30 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: . . . as I've noted before, Mormonism is ESPECIALLY FALSE.
I've not claimed that any religion is more false than the other so this attempt at sarcasm is off the mark. For sarcasm to work you have to be accurate about that which you are attempting to mock. A joke that is "funny because it's true" is not funny if it's not true.
It seems that we all agree that all religions share the same flaw in that they put faith ahead of reason. They are all false, but some are more violent/intolerant/sexist and so on and these differences have real world consequences.
It bothers me that every public figure who speaks about Islam being currently more troublesome is labelled a racist and bigot and their reasoned arguments are ignored or misrepresented. Sam Harris, Bill Maher, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Maajid Nawaz, Richard Dawkins, Hitchens etc... Tolerance of intolerance does not lead to more tolerance.
Compare this to the enlightenment when people like Voltaire, and Thomas Jefferson spoke out against Christianity. They were deemed blasphemers by their religious opponents, not racists and bigots by their own ideological peers.
How can there be a new enlightenment directed at Islam when Liberals and atheists attack their own peers who are speaking out against Islam?
If god was real he wouldn't need middle men to explain his wants or do his bidding.
