On 5-7-2009 19:03, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> As long as we take one another's religion serious and don't try to 
>> make fun of what differs from what we believe, there should not be a 
>> problem. 
> 
> I don't think the atheists would have a problem with it if the faithful 
> everywhere were tolerant as well. 

Many religious people are very tolerant. Problem is that you mainly hear 
the others.

> When it's still the death penalty to 
> change which prophet you believe in large parts of the world, there's 
> still good reason to argue it, methinks.

With China a nice example that a government can be atheist and still put 
people to death for having a religion with one or more gods. And you 
don't even need a god, a little collective exercise may be enough. The 
main reason most intolerant groups and governments are religious is 
simple because also most tolerant ones are.

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