That's all I'm asking On Apr 4, 2013 9:28 AM, "Larry C. Lyons" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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:362374 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
