Once again, I just feel I need to flag a message:
Author: Percy
Forum: Comparative Religions
Topic: You Guys Need to Communicate! (thoughts from an ex evangelical Christian)
Message Number:
56
But Harris isn't saying that religious moderates are catering to fundamentalists. I think his position is much closer to Edmund Burke's, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Challenging and questioning the beliefs of other religions would be the height of intolerance, and so is discouraged.
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Expanding a little on Harris's views of religious moderation, he also feels it is bears some significant culpability for the west's underestimation of the Islamic threat to civilization. In the religious moderate's view, Islam is actually a religion of peace, and 9/11 was just an action taking by extremist Islamic terrorists who are not representative of mainstream Islam. I think the celebration in the Islamic world that followed 9/11 gives this the lie. Islam includes a strong tradition of violence that religious moderates paper over and hence fail to recognize, to our great peril.
I break those two paragraphs into seperate quotes, even thought there is nothing between them at the source. The "bolding" is mine.
Are there new topic(s) in there? Especially the second "bolding"? When a member of the Christian right condemns Islam, I have a hard time taking it that seriously. When Percy does it, it really catches my attention.
Moose
Edited by Minnemooseus, : Very minor tweek.
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