Re: Is religion antithetical to democracy [formerly: Are Islam and Democracy Incompatible?]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris alden) wrote:
>AE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> Christian tolerance always meant that everybody was allowed to become 
>> Christian, not that other religions ever would have been tolerated.
>
>Define tolerance.  If, on the one hand, you're referring to absolute
>acceptance of other religions as true, then the absolute truth claims
>of the Christian religion would of course be incompatable.  If you're
>referring to love and peace even in the face of ideological
>difference, then Christianity (as an ideology - not as an abuse of
>societal hegemony) most certainly is compatable.  I'm afraid you seem
>to be employing the former, which is a very PoMo definition, and I'd
>challenge you to either knock down absolute truth as a philosophical
>position or show me any part of Christian scripture that denys the
>idea of tolerance on a human, rather than an ideological, level.

The Christian doctrine of the Great Commission, wherein the disciples
(and by implication all Christians) are instructed to bring the gospel
to all the world, is fundamentally aggressive against all other
religious beliefs.

lojbab
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Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
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