Ed, are you suggesting that believing the 10 commandments are from God is
irrational? If so, not only should the 10 commandments be banned from public
places, we should be telling our young people that its divine source is
suspect and to believe that way shows a lack of intellectual virtue.
But
Unless the Lord is a member of a group protected by anti-hate speech laws.
:-)
Frank
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I think Sandy's right in this regard: the
positions that get labeled "science" are "knowledge" and religion merely
"opinion." In one of the ironies of political liberalism (of the Rawlsian sort),
these distinctions turn out to be argument-stoppers rather than conversation
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The sort of "golden rule"argument you are offering
cuts both ways. For example, I could argue in the following way if I were
an atheist:
I would hope that I live in a society in which religious
liberty is viewed as one of many fundamental rights that I possess by virtue