Another's Religion

[monk222]

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“We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.”

-- H. L. Mencken

We certainly should not bow down to another's religion to the extent that we allow him to dictate how to dress our wives or what we can write without being blasphemous, nor should we conform our science to their ancient texts, nor limit our reproductive rights by their lights, and on and on.

Got this quote from the Andrew Sullivan blog.

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Comments

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

But I trust you wouldn't say that there is some kind of moral equivalence between us and these theocratically driven mideast societies. We may not be perfect, but we are surely much more advanced in terms of religious pluralism. The issue of drawing moral equivalences, as Antilapsarian is wont to do, is an ongoing issue with us.