Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: WATCH: Palestinian teens attack Orthodox Jews with snowballs in Jerusalem [View all]TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)Utterly unachievable I know, but still a damned sight better aiming point than the bastardised version: Do unto others, as thou wouldst have them do unto you.
That's the one that lets the boys on bikes and the Clocktower mob give themselves permission to bring God to my door when I've just come off a late shift or even just settled down to watch the midday movie.
Mine considers how my behaviour might impact on others. The other EXPECTS that outward behaviour will result in reciprocity.
I am perfectly happy to give anyone and everyone equal LEGITIMATE access to public facilities and spaces. (Need I define legitimate as legally permisible?)
My issue lies with mobs like The Exclusive Brethren and Scientology who build walled compounds and then raise their religion as a nigh on impregnable shield against legitimate investigation of complaints made against them; With door knocking evanjelicals; The RC church which to this very day is using the shield of religious freedom to minimise scrutiny on the subject of systemic institutionalised paedophilia; Jim Jones and Jonestown; Bahgwan Rajneesh and the Orange People; The Family and yet more God ordained paedophilia; Or even Hasidic Jews so offended by the sight of lycra encased buttocks that the city of New York put the lives of cyclists on public streets at increased risk, (or forced them to go around) just to accomodate them.
You tell me my lack of tollerance for special/exclusive treatment is unacceptable, but I should accept intollerance towards me and my lack of faith based belief; that I should accept faith based intollerance towards others, all in the name of religious freedom.