South Park incurs the wrath of Mohammed

tater · 04-22-10, 10:15 PM

A belief system is nothing more than a set of ideas that one CHOOSES to believe.

Some are brilliant, some are just meh, others are idiotic.

Nazism is a belief system. Communism is as well. So is enlightened, classical liberalism (ie: Western Civilization).

Islam is another belief system characterized by literalism to an ancient story made up by illiterates who copied much of it from other such stories (some of which had been transcribed to texts). It contains wonderful ideas like treating women as lesser beings, murdering people who through enlightenment cease to believe, taxing people based on holding another belief system (only SOME people, others get to be slaves), etc.

I'm as tolerant of that as am am of any other, similarly goofy set of wrong-headed ideas—religious or non-religious.

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04-22-10, 10:15 PM	#14
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	A belief system is nothing more than a set of ideas that one CHOOSES to believe. Some are brilliant, some are just meh, others are idiotic. Nazism is a belief system. Communism is as well. So is enlightened, classical liberalism (ie: Western Civilization). Islam is another belief system characterized by literalism to an ancient story made up by illiterates who copied much of it from other such stories (some of which had been transcribed to texts). It contains wonderful ideas like treating women as lesser beings, murdering people who through enlightenment cease to believe, taxing people based on holding another belief system (only SOME people, others get to be slaves), etc. I'm as tolerant of that as am am of any other, similarly goofy set of wrong-headed ideas—religious or non-religious.