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Thread #87530   Message #1635511
Posted By: GUEST,Flaherty
27-Dec-05 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where Have All The Messages Gone?
Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All The Messages Gone?
"If A's religion is true, then B's must be false."


Ha. Only if one has such a primitive understanding OF religion in the first place that it could be compared to that of a caveman or a very young and frightened child.

Anyone who has a deeper understanding of spirituality finds value and meaning in all religions...and the same simple truths at the heart of all their teachings.

The Bahais are wise enough to recognize that. So are many others. Intolerant fundamentalists who hate all other religions than their own garner the headlines for one simple reason...bad news is always distributed widely. It sells more copy than good news.

It is a common error of the person who hates religion on principle to assume that everyone who is religious must also be as intolerant and narrow-minded as he himself is...and must in addition be a simple-minded idiot. Not necessarily so. The intolerant atheist and the intolerant fundamentalist are two shoes made out of the same leather. They walk the same path of mutual chauvinism. They just happen to go on a different foot, that's all. You will find the same nasty head crowning the body...imagining that its chosen way is the only right way possible.