andrel wrote:
> Many religious people are very tolerant. Problem is that you mainly hear 
> the others.

I'm sorry, but I live in California, where they just passed an amendment to 
the constitution to strip the right to marry from gay people. Now, *maybe* 
it wasn't religious, and perhaps you can offer me an actual rational secular 
reason why this happened.

Many religious people are tolerant.  A majority of them around here are *not*.

>> 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. 

 From everything I've heard from people actually *in* China, one doesn't get 
punished for being religious. One gets punished for using religion as an 
excuse to advocate overthrow of the current government.

YMMV, but I have religious relatives in China, so maybe one of us is hearing 
propaganda.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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