Muslims promoting Islam: Islam is the truth. We care about the truth. Atheists against Islam: There's no evidence. We can’t accept it as truth. We care about the truth. Atheists for Islamic reform: Just believe whatever, as long as they're not hurting me! Who cares about truth!?
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Replying to @ArminNavabi
You forgot one. Atheists against Islam, but for Islamic reform: We care about the truth, and will pursue it. But we know humans are irrational, and reason alone cannot cure them, so, until we find a way to end religion for good, we will seek to promote peaceful coexistence.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
We should not lie to people no matter how irrational you find them. There're ways of simplifying the explanation. The goal is not to end religion for good. We can aim for more achievable goals. Helping even one person be more skeptical is a worthy and achievable goal.
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Replying to @ArminNavabi
I agree. The thing is, we can do all that, and *still* persuade people that if they must believe, then more moderate beliefs are best.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
If one has abandoned logic and believes in fairy tales, what logic can we use in favor of more peaceful fairy tales? If they want peaceful myths, they're already peaceful. Why delude people by promoting lies? There's no need for superstition. Let's not take part in spreading it.
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Replying to @ArminNavabi
We don't have to spread superstition. But it's going to take a while to reason people out of religion, and in that time many people will suffer more FGM, child marriage, terrorism. Why not seek to end these practices now by supporting moderates *while* we work on the bigger plan?
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
If we promote Islamic reform, we're promoting Islam, we're promoting superstition. We can support Muslims fighting for secularism, gay rights, woman rights & democracy without giving Islam undeserved credit. Give those Muslims the credit. Not everything a Muslim does is Islam.
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Replying to @ArminNavabi
I'm not suggesting we promote Islam. By supporting Islamic reform, what I mean is that we should initially focus our attacks on the targets of reform, the worst sects like Wahhabism, and the worst aspects like FGM, and as we beat these back, we can move onto more moderate aspects
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I believe this would be the best approach as it will allow us to work with the moderate Muslims against a common enemy, and in doing so we may even be able to convince a few moderates to become more rational.
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