""The moral basis of some faiths is misguided; so such faiths themselves can misguide. It is surely a piece of dreadful relativism, in the pejorative sense, to think we must 'respect' the teachings of them all equally. Hence my reply some way back to Richard, who seemed to me up the creek in taking me to task for 'picking out a certain religion for criticism'.""

You would be absolutely correct in this comment, had you read the whole Q'ran and found it to be uniformly evil in its intent toward non believers.

Not so, when your criticism relies upon only the same tiny cherry picked section (109 verses, out of 6236) which was the basis of radicalising terrorists.

You are painting the whole with a brush used for one colour of many.

How you, an intelligent and thoughtful debater, can continue to rely upon this specious argument astounds me. It is simply arrant nonsense.

Don T.