Sometimes when talking about religion, mainly Christianity because I’m familiar with it the most, I’m told that I would not say the same things about Muslims or Jews or even Hindus. I would hope to think I would, but I rarely get to meet such people. The same people tend to have the idea that all beliefs should be respected, yet fail to show the due respect to new beliefs such as Scientology or Mormonism. It seems respect is only for the old Abrahamic faiths.

Alex

That doesn’t logically adhere.

[quote post="239"]There’s also a third kind of believers: the liberals. Those are the most harmless ones, I guess, though they are so mainly because they don’t take their religion seriously; as Harris says, they actually don’t really know what they believe, and have never thought about it; they just like the feeling of going to church, and of “belonging” there.[/quote]

Even if one were to be a “liberal” by your definition, and disregarded the bible, it does not mean that they don’t take their religion seriously. And it doesn’t mean that they don’t know what they believe, or that they never thought about it.

I know “liberals” who certainly take their religion seriously, and have seriously thought about, but whose religion does not include the bible.

-micah

I argued that the Abrahamic religions are misogynistic and violent. But because they’re RELIGIONS, we have to be tolerant. If someone came up to me on the street and said, “I think you are less than human, and also, since you don’t agree with my belief system, I am going to kill you,” I would call the cops. But if someone came up to me on the street and said those things, but followed it with, “because God told me so,” I’m suddenly supposed to be tolerant? No way!