RE: The hijab (etc) is immodest
February 5, 2020 at 6:42 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2020 at 6:57 am by Belacqua.)
(February 4, 2020 at 11:09 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: the suspension of logical and critical thinking that is required to buy into the fairy-tale stories of both religions.
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Religion is like a plague.
A bigot is someone who looks at a huge diverse group and judges the whole group by its worst members.
The above statements show that you do exactly that.
Religion is a huge undefinable constellation of things, with no clear essence. You've never read Wittgenstein, but if you had you would know that it works by "family resemblance," not any essential quality.
The fact that you reduce it in every case to the suspension of logical and critical thinking shows that you pick out one characteristic as essential and judge the whole thing by that characteristic. So you are a bigot.
This is common among simple-minded atheists. They think of "religion" as only one thing, a single thing that can be judged and argued against. This is too simple.
For example, you say that I "defend religion." But I don't defend -- or speak of -- "religion" as if it's only one thing. I do tend to point out that many of your criticisms of Christianity are foolishly simple, as when you write as if all Christians are sola scriptura literalists. When you make unfair and simple-minded statements, it is good for someone to correct you. Sadly, this would be a full-time job.
On this thread I have said nothing in defense of religion. I have acknowledged that different societies make different rules about how much of the body can be shown, but (unlike other people here) I have also pointed out that this varies within religions. There is no uniformity in the Muslim world on this point, and when simple-minded people write as if there is they should be corrected. I have also argued that if you accept your own society's rules concerning body coverage, but denounce another society's rules, you are being hypocritical. Because such rules are not disprovable (like belief in a flat earth) but social mores.
So you are both simple-minded and bigoted. You think that your understanding is superior to religious people's understanding, and you maintain this illusion by reducing religious people's understanding to a stupid caricature.
