David Tingley: I think Sam Harris makes an important point about political correctness in this Bill Maher video from last night. “The crucial point of confusion is that we have been sold this meme of islamophobia where every criticism of the DOCTRINE of Islam gets conflated with bigotry towards Muslims as PEOPLE. Thats intellectually ridiculous. ..we have to be able to criticize bad ideas, and Islam at the moment is the mother lode of bad ideas. Ideas like blasphemy, apostasy..” The religious doctrine is using the 1.5 billion adherents as a kind of human shield against criticism. And they are not even willing human shields; it is a central doctrine of Islam that apostasy is punishable by death. Ben Affleck is dead wrong on this issue. It is not a measure of tolerance to bend over backwards in order to tolerate intolerance. Human beings have rights, but ideas do not and cannot. Sadly, this fact is fraught with difficulty because religious believers of all stripes have been programmed to respond to any criticism of the doctrine as a personal attack on themselves. I have seen innumerable examples of this right here on Facebook, and have been unfriended by dozens of people for criticizing religion.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 00:43:53 +0000
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