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Shouldn't everyone support the idea that every philosophy and religious belief has the right to participate in the public sphere?
by harimau777 8y ago
Shouldn't everyone support the idea that every philosophy and religious belief has the right to participate in the public sphere?
- pmarreck 8y agoI do not support the right of religious believers to promote their unsubstantiated-at-all-by-the-evidence causes, such as promise rings to prevent teen pregnancy, or that an abortion of a 5 day old embryo is morally equivalent to the murder of an adult human. Things like that are rationally indefensible. In short, I cannot stand idly by while BS is being promulgated. The sphere of permitted discussion should mainly include secular, rational arguments.
- harimau777 8y agoRegardless of what you think the public sphere should include, restricting religious opinions from it is discrimination and should be condemned.
- pmarreck 8y agoI guess you can go condemn governments, then https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9088352/Christians-must-choose-between-religion-and-obeying-law-says-equalities-chief-Trevor-Phillips.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9088352/Christians...
- dang 8y agoReligious flamewar isn't allowed on HN. Please don't post like this here.
- pmarreck 8y agoIf emphasizing rational discussion (even if it flaunts someone's non-empirical belief) is wrong, then I don't really want to be right.
- dang 8y agoIt's not about being right or even rational—it's just tedious and leads to the self-destruction of the forum. That's a bad combo, so we ban accounts that do it here.
- beat 8y agoNo. Because Nazis.
- Izkata 8y agoTo quote: > When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. The best way to deal with them is not to turn them into a figurative martyr and make people wonder what you're trying to hide, but to convince others their ideology is stupid by putting it on display and publicly rebutting it. You may even convince them to change their ways, rather than just build up the anger and resentment.