On Mon, March 26, 2007 8:02 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: OK, maybe the Founding Fathers were not the best reply to your email. How about this one...
> Because religion rejects compromise which is the heart of society. > > Because religion admits no error under any circumstance or evidence. > > Intolerant and impervious is a recipe for social dysfunction. > > Intolerant and impervious is a mixture fairly unique to religion. I can't speak for all religions since I don't know all of them. I can try to speak about Christianity since I know something about that but I don't claim to know everything.... On many things I think Christianity *does* accept compromise, flexibility, admission of errors and tolerance. Why? Well some things just aren't that central to Christianity. And, some things we just *don't know* for sure what the right answer is. All we have are principles to go by to base our decisions on. By the way, I'll bet you aren't completely flexible and tolerant about everything. Suppose someone told you they thought slavery of Blacks was acceptable. Would you be open to their viewpoint and be flexible enough to consider tolerating their beliefs? Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
