miltiades wrote:Just a reminder of what the post was about , no mention of Israel or terrorists. It takes one idiot besotted with the existence of Israel and one mad scientist infatuated with her own brainpower and highly intoxicated with the valor and fortitude of the idiots' "dogged " perceptive , to crush in with her usual utter crap , at least this time she left the Turks out. This is a question about religious intolerance and has nothing what so ever to do with either Israel or the Middle East . Religious intolerance , that is the question. Here it is again .
"""Having watched channel 5 this evening and having heard how some Islamic clerics are describing the non Muslims I'm perturbed to say the least.
The Jews are apparently Monkeys and the Christians Pigs. !!
What are your comments and which of the main "false" religions -all are false - is in your opinion the most intolerant of them all.
Let me say from the outset that I do not for one billionth of a second accept the existence of a creator and I consider all religions to be the byproduct of times gone by .Further more I consider any religion that preaches hatred and intolerance as dangerous to humanity as a whole . """
ps.may your God , as false as he is , be with you all !!
I don't often agree with Militiades, but I'm with him on this one. The so-called monotheistic religions, insofar as they have a common root in a "jealous god" are fundamentally intolerant. That intolerance is written into the basics of Judaic, Christian and Islamic belief.
But the non-monotheistic religions don't get awat scot-free either : Buddhism, Hinduism and Shintoism are, for example, prone to the same brutalities against non-believers.
But where I guess I differ from Militiades is that it is in Marx's criticism of religion that you'll find the most powerful of arguments aganist religious belief. Hitchens has got by far and away the best current survey in 'God is not great'.