(May 5, 2015 at 10:46 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: 1. People who ask for "respect" for their beliefs will never be satisfied.
2. Don't tell me I only need to fear the "radicals".
3. "Moderates" by definition, are people who water down their respective ideology, who accept alternative perspectives or who allow that they might be wrong.
Well put on 1 and 3.
I totally agree with 2 as well. People in the major religions are given a doctrine that they are supposed to fully obey. These people can pick and choose anything they want out of them, and use god to justify any action they do. The government must stop its pussyfooting around religion.
According to your definition of moderate, I would have to say that there are no "real" moderates in religion. If people considered the possibility that their religion may be wrong, did some critical research of their religion and all others, and gave it some serious scrutiny, there wouldn't be people in these religions. In other words, that moderate definition could mean open-minded, which everyone, including myself, needs to try to be aware of at all times. I gave my religion a very serious look, at the same time, considered the legitimacy of many others, and fell out of it immediately.
I share your outrage in your entire rant.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' -Isaac Asimov-
