This place sure goes in "spurts"

[Florian Diesch]

Donn <donn.ingle at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, 21 July 2009 02:09:13 Florian Diesch wrote:
>> None of the big wars or mass killings in the 20th century were caused by
>> religion.
> Ding! Stock canard. Try again after doing some research.

I guess you already did some research. Why don't you tell us about your
results?


>> What we need is to recognize and respect the beliefs and practices of
>> others even if we don't understand them.
> Why? Not every belief & practice (BaP) is worth respect. 

Why not? Who decides which BaPs are worth respect?

> You are entitled to your own BaPs, but not your own facts.  We can't
> *all* be right. Therefore some of our BaPs must be wrong, some kind-
> of right and others right. 

Maybe some are wrong. Maybe all are wrong. We just don't know, and maybe
we never will. So why not just try to get along with each other?


> How do we know unless we use, oh I dunno... reason and logic (which
> done correctly *is* science), in order to find out?

Maybe science is wrong. Maybe the human brain can't get the truth.



   Florian
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