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Originally Posted by Blue
As much as I stand with a lot of the thoughts being presented, I don't think I could ever tell someone that what they believe is wrong, because who's to say what I believe is right? I have no problem defending my beliefs, but, I'm not going to impose mine on someone else.
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Here's the problem with that: first of all, all religious people do the very same thing. Christians basically say that Muslims, Buddhists, Jews, etc. are all wrong, and each of those religions have the same attitude towards each other. So me saying "all of you are wrong" is no worse - I'm just not picking one and saying that's right, based on zero evidence whatsoever.
And why not tell them, anyway? Because they have no reason to believe what they do, their certitude about their religion being right is totally out of line.
Why is religion any different? Why can I debate you on your ideas of the economy, but if I say anything about your religion, I'm stepping overboard? Religion has somehow convinced people not only that there's a man in the sky, but that it's not okay to argue about it. How convenient. But then again, I don't blame them. A belief that is not backed up by facts and can be largely disproved by science would not benefit from being debated.
But I think we should maybe have a thread devoted to debating religion rather than hijack a thread about something so important on its own.