Jackie Ashley is good in the Guardian today:
To be a liberal does not mean shrugging your shoulders at those who loathe you and hoping that somehow everyone will get on. A world divided between Christian bible-belt fundamentalists, powered by US military and oil interests, and Islamist Qur'an-belt fundamentalists, ruled by misogynistic mullahs, is a bad world, period.
Quite so. But let's be clear: the battle of ideas is not between Christian and Islamic religions and cultures. The real battle of ideas is between rational, reality-based thought and religions of all kinds.
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What about rational, unreality-based thought? You know, Marxism and such.
Dearime
All religion is bad. Not all non-religion is good.
Owen
Bad for whom?
Anyone who cares about reality.
Oh come: if pre-war Germany had stuck to religion instead of cavorting with National Socialism, many people would have been better off.
That tells us that some non-religious ideas are worse than some religious ideas.
Agreed.
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