Das Heidenspaß-Komitee Köln kündigt für die Woche vom 15.-21. August Gegenveranstaltungen zum katholischen »Weltjugendtag« an.
Oder, um mit Douglas Adams zu sprechen:
If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like; everybody will have an argument but nobody feels aggrieved by it. If somebody thinks taxes should go up or down you are free to have an argument about it. [...] I just think "Fine, we have different opinions". But, the moment I say something that has something to do with somebody's (I'm going to stick my neck out here and say irrational) beliefs, then we all become terribly protective and terribly defensive and say "No, we don't attack that; that's an irrational belief but no, we respect it".
Why should it be that it's perfectly legitimate to support the Labour party or the Conservative party, Republicans or Democrats, this model of economics versus that, Macintosh instead of Windows, but to have an opinion about how the Universe began, about who created the Universe, no, that's holy? What does that mean? Why do we ring-fence that for any other reason other than that we've just got used to doing so?
Zusammenfassend:
Stop respecting religion and start submitting it to the same scrutiny as any other idea or argument.



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