RE: Agnosticism IS the most dishonest position
March 15, 2020 at 6:59 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2020 at 7:24 am by Belacqua.)
(March 15, 2020 at 6:47 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If I'm a Catholic and you're a Protestant, and I beat you to death with a rock because you're a Protestant, that's a theological dispute. If I beat you to death because you're a Loyalist who happens to be a Protestant, that's a political dispute.
Boru
No, it's tribalism.
Quote:The conflict was primarily political and nationalistic, fuelled by historical events.[31] It also had an ethnicor sectarian dimension,[32] although it was not a religious conflict.[13][33]
Theology is a field of study about the nature of God.
If you beat someone over a disagreement about the presence of Christ in the host, that's a theological dispute.
If you beat someone because he is a member of a religion traditionally associated with the other side in a political dispute, it's a fight rooted in politics.
People in Britain have been known to beat supporters of rival football teams. According to Christopher Hitchens' logic, this is proof that sports are evil.