Reply #55: Here we go again. And again. And again............

[DeSwiss]

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20958/madeline-neumann">Madeline K. Neumann

- Ad infinitum.......

"It is possible for individuals and even for whole cultures to care about the wrong things. Which is to say that it is possible for them to have beliefs and desires that reliably lead to needless human suffering. Just admitting this will transform our discourse about human morality.

It will always be easier to break things than to fix them. It seems to me therefore, to be patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect vast differences in the notion of how disease spreads. Or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes. We simply must converge on the answers we give to the most important questions in human life. And to do that we have to admit that these questions do have answers.

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance ... by failing to live by the letter of the texts (religious holy books), while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally."

~Sam Harris