To overcome the "Sounds of Silence": anyone wanna make a guess
Ken
"Seriously, I've been on Usenet for 13 years, and you have to be the
dumbest, most ignorant person I've run across in that time"
Jon Skinner
Shhhhh..... Fer Christsake don't utter his name or he'll come bounding
back like a big slobbering labrador, knock over all the furniture and
crap everywhere. And we've just got the place tidied up, too.
--
Jon
Pete Barrett
>}"Any and all religion breeds contempt."
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>Do all religions say "This is the only true religion; you must follow me or
>be [stoned, killed, raped, cast out, go to a nasty place etc] ?
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>As I understand it christianity [all flavours] does this and so does islam
>[all flavours].
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That's just two examples, and two closely related examples, at that.
Compare polytheistic religions (Shinto, Hinduism), and they'll
probably seem more tolerant. Atheist religions (Buddhism, though
perhaps not all schools) should also be more tolerant in principle,
and probably in practice, too.
John Brockbank
"Pete Barrett" <peteb...@freeuk.com> wrote in message
news:4a85a2a1...@news.eternal-september.org...
I think there are actually some variations of Christianity that do not say
such things as that non-followers will be stoned etc. Of course I agree
that Christianity in general (not the teachings of Jesus as recounted in the
Bible though) include the silly ideas of heaven and hell, but those things
are not done to people by people and have nothing to do with Christians'
behaviour. It was Thatcher who sneered at the Samaritan, not the ordinary
non-churchgoing vaguely Christian person.
I also very much doubt that all variations of Islam advocate bad treatment
of non-believers, because I have read the Koran and do not get that
impression. I guess about that of course, but it certainly states in the
Koran that matters of punishment and death are for Allah to decide, not
people. It is true that Islam does not teach turning the other cheek, but I
have never met a Christian who accepts that bit anyway.