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In reply to the discussion: Religious Freedom?? We need a new term. [View all]guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)32. but this, in my opinion, is the essential conflict
from 1620 or so to the present. The conflict between theocrats and enlightenment values.
And this is not to say that religion is in opposition to science, but that some religious people hide from science by pretending that the Bible cannot be reconciled with science.
Islam had the same conflict between science and theology.
Why it happens is beyond me, unless severe economic stress causes people to retreat to what they feel were simpler and better times and ways of thinking.
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I'm not a fan of lumping. Call people assholes if they are assholes, and call people
MADem
Mar 2015
#4
Huh? People at the Unitarian Universalist church "believe" but they don't "hate."
MADem
Mar 2015
#14
I don't presume to speak for them but I had a cousin who was active in that church and
MADem
Mar 2015
#35
Well, they came out in droves for my cousin's funeral, from all walks of life, all circumstances,
MADem
Mar 2015
#38
Your OP didn't include that reference point--it appeared generic, so I took it that way.
MADem
Mar 2015
#10
I like that as well because it can be applied to other areas besides these laws.
cbayer
Mar 2015
#25
Telling children that non-believers are going to hell is threatening nobody
Starboard Tack
Mar 2015
#54
I chose "Religious Discrimination" at first, but that smacked of martyrdom, so I changed my vote
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2015
#56