(September 4, 2012 at 12:43 pm)genkaus Wrote:(September 4, 2012 at 12:28 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote: I don't. Atheism and pluralism are not mutually exclusive.
Pluralism by definition includes various faiths and non-faiths, including atheism.
Your question betrays your lack of understanding of the concepts at hand.
So an atheist can be a pluralist, and disagree with other beliefs, but respect their existence, the existence of their adherents and their rational or non-rational bases for believing.
Your response betrays your lack of understanding of the question at hand. Which is strange, considering you brought it up. You attempted to create a false dichotomy where forced atheism and pluralism are the only two options. The third option, which a lot of atheists actually choose, is disagreeing with other beliefs and not respecting them or their adherents, while at the same time not not trying to forcefully convert them either.
No.
The point in the OP was that secularism treated some people like garbage while flying the flag of tolerance, pluralism and humanism. At least, a significant portion of the world's culture felt that way. Women, Muslims, minorities. The original post called for an examination of the notion of "conservative secularism", where these kind of people might be accepted without feeling like secularism treats them like shit.
