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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I am mildly surprised that you 'find it deeply worrying' - it's just someone's opinion, politely expressed.
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That's true, Sparrow.
But one can worry about the way that
some believers don't appreciate that tolerance works both ways.
I've long been mildly fed up with religious advertisements on British public transport. Buses and trains often have advertisements from Christian evangelist sects. But I wouldn't dream of making a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority.
But when the British Humanist Society recently advertised on a few buses with the slogan, "There's probably no God," there were hundreds of complaints, and one driver refused to drive his bus.
I believe that there must be a parity of tolerance.
The story is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7813812.stm
and here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/h...re/7832647.stm