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Alumbrado -> RE: Are You Tolerant of Others' Religious Beliefs? (8/12/2008 9:03:14 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Irishknight
I think one thing some are missing is that nobody here is saying that you should do nothing when members of a religion are causing harm to themselves or others. That is not tolerance. It is enabling criminal behavior.
However, to label a religion you disagree with as ignorance merely for being different is simply arrogance on your part. I will not join in lampshade worship or in the Church of the Garden Gnome. However, as long as they do not hurt themselves or others, they can do whatever their hearts desire. It is their Constitutional right.
Actually, in previous threads on the FDLS/Jeffs religious group, more than one poster here made big deal out of saying that even if they are harming children, we are bound to respect their 'poly' beliefs, and that prosecuting such criminal behavior is a violation of the Constitution.
Similar views were expressed a while back about practices from other cultures that caused physical harm, and even death.
What has been conveyed in this thread is that calling something a religion should exempt it from ridicule, or criticism.
And in my book, no group of people is that special. If I have to hold something sacred, you can bet that it certainly isn't going to be something that demands to be treated as such.
If that is too egalitarian for some folks, they will just have to get over themselves.
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