(October 16, 2012 at 5:41 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I'm an equal rights atheist; I treat all religions with equal contempt (for a given value of 'contempt'. YMMV). Islam, Xtianity, whatever: from my perspective it's all basically the same. If it can be used to protect criminals and/or rationalise their crimes, it's an antisocial and antihuman irrelevance. All else being equal, society would be better off without it.I also am for equal contempt for unproven claims. But other than the same violent force humanity tries to use to push its political and religious utopias on all 7 billion of us, what would you suggest?
I do NOT support her claim that Allah is the one true god. But first and formost she is a human and a human valuing the rights of girls and women. I cannot turn my back on her because of that.
In a utopia we would be better off without religion, but since we do not live in a utopia, nor will any group get a utopia, I suggest we all deal with reality.
