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

[wordlesswriter.livejournal.com]

love both the qoats!!

[antilapsarian.livejournal.com]

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.

Of course, the problem though is that we cannot, vice versa, dictate to him...how to dress, tell him to conform to our science, etc..

I think, by respect for the beliefs of others, what we mean--or should mean--is that while we do not have to hold them ourselves we try our best to make room for them to do the same.