*@lpg, cannot disagree with anything you wrote above, and I take your point about the Vatican's (re: it's active encouragement of the HIV virus) - that given time the Vatican's authority on matters to do with the real world will (I use the word will hopefully) be eroded.
I agree that we should be moving towards secularism - but as you say we aren't :(*
aren't you more likely to see mutilation of women, oppression, torture (i.e everything that disgusts you) in fundamentalist religious regimes? how can you then say
I don't think fundamentalism is the problem, I think 'moderate' (read 'intellectually dishonest, unthinking') religion is the problem.
i'm not picking a fight, i just want to know where you stand, as-salaamu alaikum!
Well, read #834, then your response reads :
*@lpg, cannot disagree with anything you wrote above, and I take your point about the Vatican's (re: it's active encouragement of the HIV virus) - that given time the Vatican's authority on matters to do with the real world will (I use the word will hopefully) be eroded.
I agree that we should be moving towards secularism - but as you say we aren't :(*
aren't you more likely to see mutilation of women, oppression, torture (i.e everything that disgusts you) in fundamentalist religious regimes? how can you then say
I don't think fundamentalism is the problem, I think 'moderate' (read 'intellectually dishonest, unthinking') religion is the problem.
i'm not picking a fight, i just want to know where you stand, as-salaamu alaikum!