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I'm not shoving any ideas down anyone's throats. Here I'm discussing them, and that is what I would like it to be like with all ideas. The parties involved discuss them willingly. One can always leave, or not pick up a book, or whatever. And if you feel the need to object, to stay and argue, then you bloody well had better have a clue or you won't be able to defend your ideas, and that's hardly my fault.
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If it didn't affect me, I would never have become aware of it. Besides, that's not the point. The point is I should be able to say so and not get a hard time because I'm talking about someone's "beliefs". I invite them to challenge what I say. They may prove me wrong, and I would never have grown if I just sat down and shut up like a good little faitheist. And that goes for the rest of you as well. The discourse I propose goes both ways, but when it's just me it generates the illusion of arrogance, which is most unfair.
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You're claiming that everyone's ideas
must be subjected to your discussion and/or criticism. And that's fine, I suppose, because you're willing to have your ideas subjected to the same process. But I'm saying that most people just want to be left alone and will, in turn, leave you alone.
Sure, criticise militant religionists all you like. But don't tar all of them with the same brush.
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I agree with Bullet Magnet. Completely. I will afford your religious nonsense no special considerations. None at all. If you wish to discuss it in my presence, I will let you know what I think of it just as if you were claiming that 2 and 2 is 5. Religious tolerance is just that. I tolerate you. That doesn't mean that I can't say that you're wrong.
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Note the phrase "If you wish..."
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enabling those who would (for example) rather pray than acquire medical care for desperately sick children
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For the record, anyone who does that isn't a moderate. I know plenty of fundamentalists who would say that's goddamn stupid.
In overall summary to both OANST and BM: You forcing your views on religious people is just as bad as them forcing their views on you. Sure, you think that you're in the right because your opinions can be backed up by logic and rational arguments. But they think the same thing too.