Religious by nurture
A Saudi-funded Islamic school says it is removing from text books controversial passages which allegedly brand other faiths as "worthless"
You might think this is a good thing, but I assure you its not. When you subscribe to a religion that clearly states the only way to eternal happiness is to denounce other religions and that all other sets of beliefs will end in burning agony, cutting the rougher words out of a textbook doesn't really cut the mustard.
In case it occurs to anyone i'm being a raceist or islamist or something, I dont hold this view for Islam alone, the Bible has some lovely passages instructing you to stone to death anyone who advocates other Gods than, well, God.
"The head insisted pupils were never taught religious hatred or intolerance."
I love that quote. Religion and intolerence arn't seperable, you cant genuninely hold the opinion judgement day will come and only christians will be saved and still tolerate the idea's of non-christians, they are quite literally death and brimstone to anyone who takes notice of them.
Quite how you come to the opinion an all knowing creater of the universe wrote a book riddled with inconsistencies and writing far inferior to Shakesspeare I dont know, but people come to that opinion nonetheless. If they left it at that religion would die out, instead they take the book, read it, and say..
"Well he didn't *mean* it like that, when he says stone them"
Or better yet, they cut the passages out alltogether as in this case.
And so religion lives on, 'moderated' by religious moderates, who's weak stomach for the truth sets religion on a pedestal where you cant touch it with reason in its whole utterly absurd completeness.