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Originally Posted by TGS
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.
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I don't think this describes the average believer in Jesus, but a very small fringe. I grew up around Christians, and I don't think I ever met one who supported the things you listed.
Heck, atheists and agnostics have our fringers too.