[extropy-chat] Re: The Force of Human Freedom

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

The "misogynistic warrior-cult" of islam is clearly the opposite of
the "crippling relativism" that you dislike in modern western culture:
they believe in their holy war against the west with a fervor
untainted by doubt, complex ideas, and crippling relativism.
So it seems to me that if you disapprove relativism in our culture,
you should approve its absence in theirs.
Or are just stating that we are good and they are bad without
accepting the burden of proof?
Or have I misunderstood something?
G.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:23:48 -0600, Greg Burch <gregburch at gregburch.net> wrote:
the Enlightenment struggle is crippled by our very humanism that
translates ! into a kind of civility that won't condemn Islam for the
misogynistic warrior-cult that it is and has allowed much of our own
cultural machinery  to fall into the hands of crippling relativism.