Moratorium on moderation/censorship/general whines.-give it up for lent eh?

[Joe Brouhard]

Very well.  I stand  corrected. :)

I prefer toleration over anything else tbh.  Everyone's right and
everyone's wrong and all that jazz. :)

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Joe Brouhard <jbrouhard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Each religion considers each other a  "falshood"
>
> That's an inaccurate generalization.  Many religions consider other religions to
> be none of their business.
>
> The "civilizations of the world" class I took as a requirement for a bachelor's
> degree had a couple weeks on the Islamic empire, as an example of
> an empire that practiced tolerance -- well, the Greek empire was tolerant,
> as long  as the conquered lands organized into city-states that was cool
> by Alexander; but there were a lot of column-inches devoted to stating
> how tolerant the Islamic Empire was.
>
> A google search
> http://www.google.com/search?q=tolerance+in+the+islamic+empire
> yields all sorts of interesting discussions of the history of tolerance
> as a civic value, such as
>
> http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/toleran1.html
> and historians brandishing evidence and theories at each other
>
> http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2008/02/myth-of-tolerance-in-classical-islam.html
>
> Hooray for tolerance!  Hooray for diversity!  Hooray for the so-called sun
> that rises and sets so reliably you could set a clock by it!
>
> --
> "I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war,
> assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the
> fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs." -- Dr. Albert Einstein
>



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Joe Brouhard
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