From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 18:33:24 MST
Ron writes
> [Olga writes]
> > Huh? I never denied making that statement. And I'll
> > say it again - there's a link between religiosity
> > and intolerance.
Merely statistical.
> if we look around we find fundamentalists and the intolerant
> among Christians, Jews, Moslems and Atheists.
For sure. Just because I am a devout atheist should
not mean that I'm tolerant. I'm at least as intolerant
as Richard Dawkins, in his fine message in the URL that
Olga provided.
http://www.ffrf.org/dawkins.html
What I have to keep remembering is that though I am
intolerant, I am no bigot. Usually, though, I have
to refresh myself on what bigotry means
bigotry
\Big"ot*ry\, n. [Cf. F. bigoterie.] 1. The state of
mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment
of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded
intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
Thus, even though some of us are intolerant, we should
try to avoid being obstinate, and certainly be as open-
minded as possible.
> I think the rest of us have some quantity of the
> agnostic or the searcher in our make up, and those
> also are found among every religious persuasion
Well, I guess so. Provided that the population of
believers of a particular persuasion is high enough.
Lee
> including those that are not believers in any particular theology.
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