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Post Boston Bombing: Is More ‘Religion Bashing’ on the Way?

Radical Islam has comparatively liberal views toward sex. Polygamy is ok, divorce is quick and easy, age restrictions on partners are relatively lax, and sexual slavery has its proponents. Islamists treat sex principally as a means to an end. The other guys, too, are very liberal toward sex, for whom divorce is easy, and to whom sex is mainly for personal gratification.

Radical Islam calls Jews and Christians the descendants of apes and pigs. The other guys say we are ALL the descendants of apes. Radical Islam uses political coercion, including the courts, as a means to force dissenters to first accept, and then adopt their ideology — cultural conquest is their goal. Ditto the other guys. Radical Islam does not hold all people equal under the law, but has preferred groups and classes of people with greater legal freedoms and privileges than other citizens. So do these other guys. The integration of religion and state into one system by Islam has a sort of parallel with the other guys, insofar as the State should determine what role and function (if any!) religious expression is permitted to have within culture. (i.e. Religious freedom exists (or doesn’t) at the whim of the State.)

The “other guys”, of course, are militant atheists.

Notice, that in the section above, logic, truth, or fairness didn’t matter –rhetorical force was what mattered. Statistical outliers can be held up as mainstream, and the many can be judged by the few. This what New Atheism regularly does, and too often, we let them get away with it. Conveniently, because they hide behind their atheism, they are “irreligious” and impervious to their own criticisms.

Ridiculous! I suppose Buddhism isn’t a religion, then, since they lack a god? “Religion” as a slur is a word so elastic that it means both everything and nothing at all.

Let’s stop being childish, shall we? If we want serious conversation, let’s use a precise term, like “worldview”, so we can subject everyone’s beliefs to one uniform test and scrutiny. If you are new to worldview, here is a point-form breakdown.

Because ultimately, what we are facing is not a problem of religion, merely, but the wider problem of worldview.

Image: Christopher Hitchesn/Richard Dawkings; Mimetic Foment; author: Steve Jurvetson; originally posted to Flickr.com by Tom Morris; Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

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