Niall
Frank would you mind telling me the actions of a moderate would look like in your opinion?
How about NOT defending religion at
every opportunity?
Why not admit, based off of the information available that the Muhammad teddy bear incident is the result of religious intolerance, that it was unjustified, silly and dangerous?
I think a moderate could do that.
Instead we get a plethora of "possible" secular reasons that allow the law to exist, so it can't be the religions fault.
Mad says that he does not feel that it is necessary for him to criticize religion because it is already covered well enough by the atheists.
Apparently he has little or nothing to offer in that category.
Yet he jumps in at every opportunity to defend religion, even when several other theists are already on the case.
I guess Mad does not think much of the other theist's arguments.
In other words Mad feels the need to defend religion but not to criticize it.
Furthermore his arguments nearly always portray religion as the victim, or its abuse by a secular authority, hence alleviating it of the responsibility for the atrocities carried out in its name.
I think a moderate would accept the atrocities and argue for the good religion does, rather than make a lame attempt at displacing blame.
Just my opinion
Later
