[ExI] atheists declare religions as scams

[Dan]

The Abrahamic faiths tend to less tolerant of opposing views overall. (If the 
Bible is any guide to history, wiping out people of opposing views happened and 
was condoned.) That said, though, toleration seems to be something that takes 
time to learn and institutionalize. I believe the EP crowd can offer up reasons 
for this: anything that's different has a good chance of being dangerous, so 
best to just not tolerate it as a default condition.

But all of this said, we run into the problem of scriptural or even historical 
determinism. Just because some Muslims today don't tolerate ideological 
opposition to their beliefs - and by "not tolerate," I mean use violence not 
merely not be friends with -- doesn't mean all Muslims do.

Regards,

Dan


From: Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tue, January 4, 2011 12:25:05 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] atheists declare religions as scams

The atheists seem to be outweighing the theists in the comments.

Also, depending on circumstances, openly going against any of the three
in back could get you killed.  (Granted, it's more famous for the one in the
back right - though, the Middle East-North Africa region, where this is most
common, only accounts for about 20% of worldwide Muslim population
according to Wikipedia's sources.)  I don't know if that's true of the two in
front.

2011/1/4 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
> What surprises me is that they would include the one on the far right of the
> five shown in the graphic:
>
>http://www.christianpost.com/article/20110103/atheists-declare-religions-as-scams-in-new-ad/
>/
>
> Opposing the other four is harmless; taking on the one in the back row, far
> right can result in murder.
>
> spike


      
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