From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 19:13:47 MST
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Olga stressed:
> <<All I said was there's a link between religiosity and intolerance
> - the more fundamentally religious a group is, the more intolerant it
> tends to be...
>
> Eh? There are many non-religious, anti-religious people who have done
> many nasty things too...
The one thing that hasn't been noted in this thread
is that intolerance is human nature, and will show
up wherever it can. Every situation where one
philosophy is so dominant it can do as it pleases,
intolerance of the minority shows up. We have seen
that with christians, jews, muslims, hindus, atheists,
and perhaps even buddhists.
Tolerance happens when no single philosophy owns everything.
In the middle east, Islam is so dominant, tolerance
will only be seen when there is some miraculous influx
of every philosophy known. I do not know how to get
50 million Chinese and 50 million Indians and 50 million
European and American rock and rollers to go settle in
the Asian desert among the Muslims, but that is about
what it would take to dilute the dominant philosophy
and result in a modicum of tolerance in that region.
spike
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