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Originally Posted by Falcao
Wrong? Who can say what's right or wrong?
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Well-informed rational folks can say that ill-informed irrational beliefs are wrong.
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Originally Posted by Falcao
Dangerous to whom? If a belief is dangerous to unbelievers, then believers are not following Juarez's advice about respecting non-believers.
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Believers in eugenics, racial apartheid, ethnic cleansing, suppression of women, killing non-believers, bombing abortion clinics, beating up homosexuals are all dangerous - regardless of whether those beliefs are religiously based or not. I cannot in all seriousness be expected to respect - in any meaningful sense of that word - the holding of, or the holders of, those beliefs. I might be expected to tolerate them, so long as they don't get in my face and start screwing stuff up.