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Who is the least tolerant?
- Thread starter Evangelicalhumanist
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I wasn't.
Should I be?
(I haven't spread any specious rumors about in over 2 days.)
PearlSeeker
Well-Known Member
Are you sure? You have some Old Testament at disposal:
Marx: The Communist Manifesto
The four gospels of "new a(nti)theism" are also available:
Sam Harris: The End of Faith
Daniel Dennett: Breaking the Spell
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
Christopher Hitchens: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I think a lot of has to do with emotional investment. Its why sensitive topics are so difficult imv.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
There's myriad books like that. There is no single recognised equivalent of the Bible that all atheists look to.
Perhaps these books, along with so many more, might have effects on some, but I tended to read them to be up to date on what arguments are used against religions - with me forming my non-belief decades before any of these were written, as I suspect would be the case for many others.
PS Never read Marx that I can recall.
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I haven't heard them claim you're intolerant.
But some call you "French".
Naturally, I defend you.
Only you have called be french in a futile attempt to trigger my intolerance,.
The acclaimed "four gospels of "new a(nti)theism"" are just books like many others and are in no way considered gospels except as a derogatory dig by religious folk.
I have a suspicion that they are far more read and studied by christians searching for ammunition than by atheists
Well...my rumor mongering is limited to Revoltistanians on RF.
Evangelicalhumanist I haven’t voted on the poll simply because there should have been a third option ( BOTH ) I take no pleasure in seeing the church punish some unfortunate for merely being gay and having a hot coal placed up their behind to purify their soul for the afterlife. I take no pleasure with the communists who during the Franco civil war took it apon themselves to rape Nuns and murder Priests who often had their genitalia cut off and placed in their mouths. The human heart who can really know it when you think apon the evil that lurks within. Especially when left to its own devices. So when it comes to secular or religious it does not discriminate between neither when it comes to that. As to the solution I do not know. Only that we should always try and guard our own hearts from such evils along with being very diligent with whom gets to admire our sweet asses as well.
PearlSeeker
Well-Known Member
Also @ChristineM
Not all. But "new atheism" movement caught some attention. There was even proselytizing - Atheist Bus Campaign - Wikipedia.
Secret Chief
nirvana is samsara
I'm impressed! Does she do speaking tours?
epronovost
Well-Known Member
In what manner is shyness a virtue?
eik
Active Member
As others have remarked the proposition you ask for a vote on is largely meaningless in using words like "tolerant" and "diversity" and "religious." It's just so broad it cannot be used for any purpose. "Religious" doesn't mean Christian. Anyone can be religious, even an atheist.
What I usually find is that devotees of nature religions are amongst the most intolerant bigots in the universe because they cannot stomach anyone who disagrees with their way of life and their worship of self.
Heyo
Veteran Member
"Are religious people more tolerant of human diversity,"
With that specifier I have voted religious people to be less tolerant.
Overall, I think it may be a wash.
