RE: Religious moderates enable religious extremists
October 17, 2013 at 5:20 pm
(This post was last modified: October 17, 2013 at 5:34 pm by Lion IRC.)
Looks like your topic is a non-starter.
I am willing to take the opposite position but you turned me down.
In monotheistic religion, moderates totally dominate their respective institutions. Extremists are seen as heretical, unorthodox and temporary. Far from being "enabled" they are disenfranchised, disempowered and self-supporting.
You call them extreme. AND SO DOES the mainstream religious MAJORITY.
Extremism only takes shape because they CANT get their heretical unorthodox views 'enabled' within the moderate majority.
One exception might be New Atheism which apathetic agnostics seem happy to let have free reign in the public square.
Moderate "Accomodationalists" seem to be in the minority among mainstream adherents of the atheist religion
I am willing to take the opposite position but you turned me down.
In monotheistic religion, moderates totally dominate their respective institutions. Extremists are seen as heretical, unorthodox and temporary. Far from being "enabled" they are disenfranchised, disempowered and self-supporting.
You call them extreme. AND SO DOES the mainstream religious MAJORITY.
Extremism only takes shape because they CANT get their heretical unorthodox views 'enabled' within the moderate majority.
One exception might be New Atheism which apathetic agnostics seem happy to let have free reign in the public square.
Moderate "Accomodationalists" seem to be in the minority among mainstream adherents of the atheist religion
