Can tolerance of powerful religions go too far? Salmon Rushdie offers an opinion.

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X-Posted from a post by hostirad in the atheism community (with my own comments at the end): An interesting article by Salman Rushdie
The article begins: "Not believing in God is no excuse for being virulently anti-religious or naïvely pro-science," says Dylan Evans, a professor of robotics at the University of West England in Bristol.
Evans has written an

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No Compromise

[pure_agnostic]

When it comes to religion and public policy (e.g. - faith-based initiatives supported by taxpayer dollars, and putting the Intelligent Design conjecture into public schools), I say we should never compromise with any religion.

Unfortunately, I suspect somebody will read my article and claim that I am intolerant. Which is far from the truth. I tolerate private expressions of religions, but strongly oppose allowing religious mythology to infect our civic discourse and public policies.

[llary]

Thanks for posting. I heartily enjoyed that :)