Comments on: Sam Harris: Speaking Truth to Power http://bligbi.com/2007/03/22/sam-harris-speaking-truth-to-power/ The ramblings of a non-apologetic militant atheist mom doing time in the lonestar state on atheism, religion, feminism, politics and current events. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:54:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Saint Gasoline http://bligbi.com/2007/03/22/sam-harris-speaking-truth-to-power/#comment-579 Saint Gasoline Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:40:14 +0000 http://bligbi.com/2007/03/22/sam-harris-speaking-truth-to-power/#comment-579 You are completely correct. Atheists are held to a double standard in issues like this. For instance, a muslim has to blow up a building or actively repress the rights of women to be considered an extremist. Meanwhile, an atheist who has never harmed another person in his life is branded an "extremist" for destroying a book. (And for destroying a book that justifies the extremists terrible actions against actual people, to boot!) The same thing goes for "intolerance". A Christian who denies that Islam is correct is not intolerant. One has to start an inquisition and start torturing people for a religious person to be deemed intolerant. An atheist, on the other hand, is intolerant just for denying that a religion is true. Never mind that Christians and every other monotheist makes the same claim about religions that aren't their own! You are completely correct. Atheists are held to a double standard in issues like this. For instance, a muslim has to blow up a building or actively repress the rights of women to be considered an extremist. Meanwhile, an atheist who has never harmed another person in his life is branded an “extremist” for destroying a book. (And for destroying a book that justifies the extremists terrible actions against actual people, to boot!)

The same thing goes for “intolerance”. A Christian who denies that Islam is correct is not intolerant. One has to start an inquisition and start torturing people for a religious person to be deemed intolerant. An atheist, on the other hand, is intolerant just for denying that a religion is true. Never mind that Christians and every other monotheist makes the same claim about religions that aren’t their own!

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