Why can I make fun of people eating escargot (snails, French) or haggas (sheep organs, Scottish) and no one bats an eye; but ridicule elements of a religious faith and you're accused of being intollerant? Why can we tell someone not to wear stripes with plaid, but encouraging someone to re-evaluate their faith is considered poor taste?
In a free society, we need to be able to criticize Islam's Shariah Law for its harshness and inequity, fundamentalist Christianity for its intellectual bankruptcy, Buddhism for its focus on enlightenment over a social conscience, Hinduism for the caste system, agnosticism for its lack of specificity, orthodox Judaism for mind-numbing kosher rules, atheism for overemphasizing intellect over relationships, etc., etc., etc.....
Why is religion set aside as immune from normal human corrective conversation, which is what can unite us rather than divide us?
2006-11-27
15:52:04
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