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So, since you have a chance of being killed by a beleif, does that mean that you are going to limit what an individual can beleive? Yeah, that's tolerant.
Another strawman. Are you so incapable of attacking my actual position that you have to repeatedly try to distort it?
People are entitled to believe whatever they want. They are not entitled to act on those beliefs, and their beliefs are certainly not entitled to respect, as you seem to think they do.
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But you're entitled to be intolerant
If by "intolerant" you mean "not automatically respect beliefs", then yes, I am. I personally think that not interfering with others' personal beliefs if they harm no one else, and giving my opinion when asked for is tolerant.
Do you respect racists? I don't. I think they have a right to be racist, and will tolerate such a view in the sense that they should be allowed to hold it, but that doesn't mean I or anyone else should respect them. I hold such views in contempt, and I'd say that most rational people would as well.
But I don't see you accusing people of being intolerant towards such views. You certainly aren't respectful of mine (though that said, you repeatedly skew them way off the mark), so you're still a hypocrite, since you're doing the exact same thing about my (distorted) beliefs as I did towards unsubstantiated beliefs.
Another unjustified label. You do seem to like your fallacies. Quote mining, ad hominem, strawmen.
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I don't go preach or knock...I'm just doing what you are: "Posting my opinions on a small corner of the Internet in a topic discussing such issues (i.e. which invites such opinions) which no one is forced to read in any way is not doing anything."
Except you're criticising me for doing so under the guise of not allowing people to "live and let live", which is laughable. I'm not criticising you for this, that's the difference. One of us is being a hypocrite, and it isn't me.
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What's wrong with someone being satisfied?
Nothing, if it's simply a personal belief that they privately hold and don't force on others in any way. That still doesn't mean the belief should have any respect or value until that can be justified.
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Who gets to say what a "good reason" is?
When it can be objectively justified.
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ut how is that evidence that the religion of Islam is exploiting its members?
Don't quote me out of context. You said they weren't forced to give, and yet they are, technically. Even if this is for good purposes. I didn't say exploited.
Oh, and remember that in Islam, you can't deconvert so if you disagree with it and change your mind on your religion, you're punished with death. This can and does occur in particularly Islamic societies.
Other religions have similar rules, but unlike Islam's, very very few follow them. Even prominent 'moderate' Muslims in modern societies like in the UK have gone on the record supporting this incidentally.
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What do you think YOUR chances are of being killed?
Very low, at least at the moment, since the people who would like to commit mass murder currently don't have WMDs. If some fanatic got their hands on a bunch of nuclear warheads, or other nuclear material, or even something more powerful, then I would say it's a real possibility.
But thankfully that's not going to happen at the moment.
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but that does not mean that the religion itself is supporting the actions.
Since these people cherry pick the parts they want to justify themselves, yes, of sorts. In the Koran, you can find peaceful verses as well as shockingly violent ones. Same with the Bible.
Just to make this clear, since you have such trouble understanding me that you repeatedly attack strawmen.
I do not automatically respect beliefs, and I think that automatic respect is a very dangerous and foolish thing as it allows the sheltering of bad or evil beliefs. I am not going to respect unjustified beliefs, until they are backed up with reason or evidence. The funny thing is that we call this the scientific method. It works rather well, as you may have noticed (are you going to criticise the scientific method of intolerance?!)
I believe people should be allowed to hold whatever beliefs they want, as long as they don't impact on others*, and they have no right to force them on others
*I can see this is begging to be used against me. Obviously certain beliefs like "murder is wrong" can be justifiably enforced on people due to the benefit it has on society, and because it is for the protection of other peoples' rights.
