Religion
In reply to the discussion: what is the most important aspect of the interaction between belivers and non believers [View all]enki23
(7,792 posts)Also, let us seek common ground with the millions of believing Christians who are sincerely convinced that it is necessary to fight any government aid going to people who might spend some of it on birth control. We know that we cannot possibly convince them that they are wrong, so we should seek common ground by suggesting that, okay, we will allow them to forbid all American women from using birth control, slash Medicaid spending, cut taxes on the wealthiest Americans by half and get rid of the minimum wage in order to get them to agree to save half of Social Security so long as most of it goes to well-to-do white Christians.
Sure, many people's religious beliefs, if true, lead to rational decisions based on irrational bullshit that often leads to really shitty outcomes. But we should just respect that, just like we respect people whose religious beliefs include child sex slavery and suicide bombing. We cannot criticize the contents of anyone's beliefs. Or... maybe we should only criticize the content that a minority of less-awful Christians allow us to criticize. Mildly. We should instead put all our effort into seeking common ground.
Even if that ground amounts to a fucking mole hill at the leading edge of a landslide. It's entirely rational to kill everyone in your path, if you're a landslide. And it would be fucking impolite to tell it to stop.