Part of the argument was blaming official state religions. Thing is about arguing cases like that you cal always bring up exceptions. Better to extract the patterns involved. The differences is that those forms of Christianity are very different from the strain of fundamentalist Christianity you see in many part of the rurual and southern US. Similarly the brand of Islam that is practiced by the Sufis, or in Indonesia, is very different from that you find in many places in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. I think the differences are in individual rights and responsibilities and tolerance (moderate Islam does hold its beliefs about "People of the Book" for instance). Similarly Sufism shows a great deal of tolerance for other religions and groups (I don't think there's ever been a suicide bombing by a Sufi for instance).
Instead of damning religion damn the parts of parts of it that are intended to crush tolerance and individuality. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yesss...but naming those countries would not have fed into my argument > against, would it? ;-D > > On 4 April 2013 08:53, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > You mean like England? Scotland? Sweden? or Norway? they all have > official > > religions. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:362371 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
