We need to guard against this'You think your ideas are better than mine so you're intolerant/a bigot.' shit.
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We should encourage people to evaluate ideas thoughtfully with the intention of picking the best ones & rejecting the rest.
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'You think your own ideas are best!' should not be a criticism. This just means you have thought about your ideas & have some committed ones
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The alternatives are 'Think all ideas are equally good' or 'choose which ideas to accept on some criteria other than them being the best.'
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The first way leads to stagnation whilst the second suggests some kind of tribalism.
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The problem is not thinking one idea is better than another but thinking that people's rights & freedom & overall worth is dependent on this
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When an idea is utterly abhorrent, it can be justified to evaluate the holder by it. I'd have trouble seeing past 'Gays shld be killed'
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But for the most part, thinking religion is true or false or more good or bad are views that can be held w/out prejudice against ppl
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Ok, defend it. (Seriously - intrigued to hear it)
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Really? You've not heard arguments that religions are not true and that societies which separate church & state are better for human rights?
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Sure I have. But 1) "separation of church & state" /= "abandoning religion for secularism"
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The person I am quoting falsely made those antonyms, yes. You can be a secularist and still have a religion.
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I assume she meant making religion the guiding force of a society/person vs centring the non-religious aspects.
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seemed to me to be more person than society, but that's a fair reading
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'Secularism' really is societal rather than personal but I suspect she meant 'prioritising things that don't adhere to religious teachings'
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Do you mean atheism?
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No, she said 'secularism'. I'm quoting. I also think atheism is better tho.
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Progressing past Niebuhr, MLK, Tutu, Dalai Lama,.etc.? I'd say the quality of the thought & reflection are what matter.
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Are their religious ideas the ones that have value? Or their humanist ones?
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I might value them for their humanism, but there might not be much to value w/out their religiousity.
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