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Originally Posted by kermitology
People are entitled to a different view of the world. Because someone disagrees with all aspects of your moral code does not mean that they are immoral or should be condemned for their beliefs. A good example of religious intolerance was the Quebec family pulling their children out of a school because they discussed other faiths. When does this way of thinking go so far as to create extreme factions that are willing to murder others because they believe so strongly that they are doing God's work by slaying these heathen non-believers.
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I acknowledged that Hitler, Communists, and even Thor had a moral position. It was just in conflict with mine. For me a law which outlawed abortion would be moral. For Thor and others it would be immoral. Me finding something moral doesn't exclude you from finding something immoral and vise versa.
Your example of religious intolerance is a poor one. This Quebec family was wise to pull their children out of that school. It is impossible to teach religious positions without bias. It is not the States responsibility to provide the bias. I don't know how you can see that the absence of the States interference will lead to these children to killing heathens. I know a few devote Catholics and have never felt at risk around them.
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Originally Posted by kermitology
I personally hold the idea that thinking I'm created in the image of God is incredibly vain. I understand how people can think that, but it still comes off to me as vanity in the worst way. Does that mean that I think people of faith are immoral, wrong, or should be put to death? No, but I do think that there are some people, who are so staunchly connected to their faith and reject the ability to adapt because it isn't contained in a book based on oral teachings that has the possibility of being edited somewhere along the way after finally being written down several decades (or even hundreds of years) after the original author professed them, are putting too much in the hands of the unexplained and aren't viewing reality.
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I don't know of anyone who believes that humans being created in the image of God equates to any of us being equal in substance. The same book that that says that clearly shows mankind as fallen creatures.
My or someone else's inability to adapt from the tenants of their Holy Book should only be a problem if that book instructs them to harm their fellow man. The times in history when Christians have wrongly taken up arms for religious reasons are the times when their leadership has lead them away from the instructions and values of the Bible. Adaptation is not necessarily
a good thing.
At the end of your paragraph you throw out some of your personal doubts about the accuracy of the Bible we have today. I don't agree but, this is probably not the place to start comparing manuscript evidence. Something that large in scope would need its own thread.