I agree that faith is not equal to hate. Blind faith can allow a person to bypass his conscience and express hate, but by the same token it could help a person to develop a conscience that rejects hate. Although I think it is most dangerous in that it can convince a person that his hate is not hate at all, through mechanisms such as "hate the sin, not the sinner."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
