'Pulling the rug' from under the feet of "peacecful believers"?

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I certainly find the "peaceful moderate" the most baffling. They propagate the myth that their holy book is the word of God, yet condemn people for actually following most of what it says.

However, this is just cognitive dissidence which we've all come to know well. Either their internal moral compass or the society they live in is having enough of an effect on them to dilute their beliefs. The only thing I have against modrerates is that they lend credibility to the myth that their book is divinely inspired, and that "faith" is a good thing. And sadly even moderates of religions can cling on to certain aspects of their religion which happen to suit their personal bigotry. This is going to vary a lot though.

Moderates seem to act more or less like atheists, they just like to think they are following the morality of their book. I'll take people actually behaving peacefully and rationally any way I can, whatever reasons they have for doing so, or however ridiculous their rationalizations may be.