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Originally Posted by stairwayoflight  It seems that those of the "tolerance" camp in the media and elsewhere find it fashionable to tolerate everyone who embraces tolerance, and bash everyone else. |
Well, if they did tolerate people that did not tolerate others, they would be idiots, wouldn't they. The idea of tolerance is to not hate/harm etc, each other for petty differences, allowing it to be an one-way street is just asking to be hated/harmed by these people.
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Originally Posted by stairwayoflight I don't have a problem with that. What is wrong with someone being a Christian, Jew, or Muslim and their faith affecting their decisions in the same way? |
Secularism does not mean the politicians do not have a religion, it means that they do not show it in their jobs. It is perfectly allowed to be affected by religion, but i cannot count anyone secular if they draw arguments from religion in public office. Maybe it is even that religion only distracts from standpoints, it is easier to say I'll be a "good Christian"(or whatever) then it is to give your standpoints. (what being a "good Christian" seems subjective to me)
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Originally Posted by stairwayoflight I feel sometimes we are forced into Atheism's strictest "orthopraxy" |
Where did you get that idea? Certainly not from Americas politics?