Reply #39: Outrage at the Pope's religious beliefs. [View All]

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As an example, there have been several posts indignant that the Pope may think all non-Catholics are going to hell--which shouldn't bother an atheist anyway, and should hardly surprise anyone else.

Fact is, most religious think the other religious of other religions are full of shit. Yet the republicans keep fundies, catholics, and to a growing extent AA christians in their party, and reach out to orthodox jews and even muslims. How do they do it? I suggest they do it by not bringing it up a lot and not taking different beliefs personally.

There's more religious discussion here in DU GD than I get anywhere fucking else in the world, with more dogmatism, and more lecturing, and more absolute intolerance than I get anywhere. And that's a fact, and it sickens me as another Dem self destruction on its way. Who gives a shit if I believe in leprechauns and fairies if I vote blue? Why, DU does, and nobody else.

You could begin and end every discussion with separation of church and state, but no. First we have to go to the validity of belief, to destroy it as the enemy. Nothing like setting up a thousand year task when there is an election in two years. Another loss on the way. See you there.