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Do religious moderates enable religious extremists? Discuss.
Why should anyone validate anyone else?
Very well, the word is changed. Do religious moderates enable religious extremists?Originally Posted by timeless
You sound like you have a specific circumstance in mind. What is it?
Yes, but so do outspoken atheists.
It's a general question, and I consider it bad form for an original poster to state his views in the first page of a thread.
How do outspoken atheists enable religious extremists?
In what way would a moderate enable an extremist?
I consider it bad for an original poster to state his views in the opening post.
I would have thought it obvious that religious extremists would be extremists regardless of the existence of anyone else. Isn't that what extremism is about? Ignoring every other point of view apart from your own *extreme* views? Extremists flock together because they aren't prepared to tolerate any other brand of belief. You're either with them, or you're against them. Moderates don't even feature on extremist radar except as objects of contempt.
They treat religion and religious extremists seriously, as though their side is only slightly less sophisticated then the atheist position. They do this with good intentions, to create a civil argument. But the fact is that the religious/extremist side should not be taken seriously, and it is not sophisticated at all.
It takes two to have a debate/argument. If people were to just disregard the religious extremist position as nonsense, and not give the religious extremists anything to fight against, the religious extremists would not be enabled.
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