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In reply to the discussion: How can religious moderates be said to enable hateful fundamentalists? [View all]bananas
(27,509 posts)13. It's not just wrong, it's hate speech, and it's stupid.
It's like saying that everyone who voted for Obama is responsible for every innocent person killed by a drone.
That's the kind of fallacious reasoning used by terrorists to justify their actions.
Another example: replace the word "faith" with the word "science" or "democracy" or just about anything else in the quote.
If you invoke science as justification for your belief, you must accept the same from others. And every person who retreats to science bears a measure of responsibility for every act of hate and violence justified by it.
Well, the eugenecists invoked science for their beliefs, does that mean everyone who retreats to science bears a measure of responsbility for every act of hate and violence justified by it? Of course not.
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How can religious moderates be said to enable hateful fundamentalists? [View all]
trotsky
Apr 2012
OP
You either didn't read or didn't understand your own "rebuttal". It makes my point perfectly!
dmallind
Apr 2012
#34
Thoroughgoing religious liberalism in no way enables fundamentalism.
E_Pluribus_Unitarian
Apr 2012
#20
That's a gigantic caveat you just tried to tack on innocuously at the end there!
trotsky
Apr 2012
#43
Of course, I never said they couldn't. So bully for the brilliant dispatch of that straw man.
trotsky
Apr 2012
#46
So given the fact that groups of freethinkers/skeptics/atheists and individuals gave their open
humblebum
Apr 2012
#58
I was not aware that the Constitution had any teeth outside of the Unites States, and
humblebum
Apr 2012
#61
Christianity has been reforming for two thousand years and continues to reform
Leontius
Apr 2012
#74
Making heavy use of helicopters painted in the color black, I'm sure.
2ndAmForComputers
Apr 2012
#76