Also, I'm prepared to defend the position that abandoning religion for secularism is a mark of progress. Is this problematic now? Tough.https://twitter.com/IonaItalia/status/922850126032396289 …
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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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