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trotsky

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21. What you apparently want to believe is that it's primarily non-religious groups being intolerant.

Reply to cbayer (Reply #13)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 02:20 PM

Sep 2012

Which of those non-religious groups are listed at the SPLC, and which of those (given your specific criteria, that's only fair, right?) specifically name their non-religion (or anti-theism) as the reason for the hate?

Your silence will reveal the hypocrisy and double standard.

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Religious intolerance on the rise worldwide, says US report [View all] cbayer Sep 2012 OP

Aren't these governmental restrictions being DRIVEN by religious oppression? cleanhippie Sep 2012 #1

Yep. The key phrase from the OP is Goblinmonger Sep 2012 #4

They spend so much time looking OUT the window for intolerance, they never turn around to see cleanhippie Sep 2012 #6

A small detail of little consequence. trotsky Sep 2012 #10

Yes. It's driven by the "Religious Right," mainly the "Fundamentalist Christian Right," not Atheists SarahM32 Sep 2012 #31

I have no problem with religious intolerance bowens43 Sep 2012 #2

You have no problem with religious intolerance? cbayer Sep 2012 #3

In the US, the churches are the ones most guilty of religious intolerance nichomachus Sep 2012 #5

I think that is true world-wide. Religious intolerance COMES from religion, not from non-religion. cleanhippie Sep 2012 #7

Just look at the majority of the SCOTUS cases regarding 1st Amendment religion. Goblinmonger Sep 2012 #8

And that information comes from where exactly? cbayer Sep 2012 #9

A church need not be on the SPLC's "hate group" list to be intolerant of other religions. cleanhippie Sep 2012 #11

The news nichomachus Sep 2012 #12

What news? While there are some stories about churches preaching and acting cbayer Sep 2012 #13

Pay attention class, this is textbook denial right here. cleanhippie Sep 2012 #15

Years ago I read a newspaper article in the Minneapolis Tribune Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #16

Link? Surely you can find a copy of said article somewhere on the internet. cbayer Sep 2012 #17

It was a long time ago Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #18

The internet has a long memory. cbayer Sep 2012 #19

I see each church as a monolithic structure Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #20

"The Catholic Church came out with a statement stating that they would be tolerant of other religion cbayer Sep 2012 #22

I stand by my reading of the article. Unless you want to call me a liar. Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #23

Not calling you a liar at all, I would just like to read it in context. cbayer Sep 2012 #24

I read and clipped it many years ago Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #25

Have you seen anything to support it? cbayer Sep 2012 #26

I am not sure what you are asking Angry Dragon Sep 2012 #27

I am not questioning your personal experience, Angry Dragon, and I am cbayer Sep 2012 #28

Man, cbayer, you REALLY feel the need to blame it all on non-believers, don't you. cleanhippie Sep 2012 #32

What you apparently want to believe is that it's primarily non-religious groups being intolerant. trotsky Sep 2012 #21

+10000000 cleanhippie Sep 2012 #14

Blair Scott...... dimbear Sep 2012 #29

It's no wonder, with the increasing volume of hatemongers on the "Religious Right" SarahM32 Sep 2012 #30