There are plenty of reasons why people shouldn't sit back and accept everyone's beliefs for what they are, moderate beliefs as well. Let me give you one. Moderate believers are responsible for this "culture of respect" that surrounds religion; they argue that we shouldn't criticize religion...
Persecution
Of course everyone who lived before the Bible were incessantly killing one another and Christians who lived after never killed any one! HAW HAW. To think that we think it's morally reprehensible to murder because the Bible says it is is at best ridiculous and at worst pretty...
Where was Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris? Ready to argumentatively bitch slap those non-secularites down!? ;) Yes, a real fair and balanced debate.
Oh my god, I've never heard such a load of rubbish in all my life. Imagine if she'd said "Muslims just need to shut up!", those two women were...
Haha! Nice bit of hypocrisy there. What happened to no personal attacks? Different religions are open to different interpretations, for example you can read the Quran and see why blowing yourself up may be justified. However you can't really see that in Buddhism or Hinduism which are relatively...
11 PETER 2:6-8
God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorra, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless. (GNB)
JUDE 1:7
Remember Sodom and Gomorra, and the nearby towns whose people acted as those angels did and indulged in sexual immorality...
The Bible says some nasty stuff, even in the new testament, if we simply followed the Bible we'd be stoning adulterers and homosexuals and slaughtering none-believers (oh, Christians already did that). The point is in order for us to choose which parts of the Bible to take notice of and which...
Walter, instead of just posting links hoping that they'll argue for you actually do some work yourself beyond a Google search, pull out the points that a relevant to the discussion because not all of us can be bothered reading all that.
You're not arguing, you're just posting links and it's...
I'm in queue for Fileshack too, I'll have to see how that one goes. The queue for Fileshack is quite short, 8 minutes.
EDIT: OK, that's more like it, 150 kbps
I can understand extremists better than I can moderates actually. An extremist actually believes verbatim what is said in their holy book. You can understand that they're just very deluded. A moderate, that believes in evolution for example, cherry picks their belief. They'll continue to believe...