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Yes, maybe that one even more.

What I am saying is that religious teachings are traceable, not that it's religious or not. If someone says that the ten commandments are similar to older laws found in other semitic cultures, there will allways be some people that jump up and say "I knew it! It's all fake! No God involved."...

And those religious and cultural teachings can be traced back to real politics and secular problems. Textual criticism used on holy scriptures gives us some interesting answers.

This is so Fahrenheit 451.

Depends. Last time I checked, they mocked gay and deaf people so can't respect every aspect of their faith. What I don't respect with your atheism, is the need to call the thinking of other religious people as "bad thinking" and the belief that your z,y,x world is superior to other worldviews...

Sounds like a lot of work to be afraid of religion?

Yes, that's important to remember. The problem you describe here, how some secular people fail to understand the feelings involved when something is perceived as holy by other people, and not just important, is a reason religious discussions are banned here, as I see it. The point is, it's not...

Ok, guess you just are a bit unsensitive then.

I find it interesting that people are upset by Reba putting down Muslims, while the mocking done by StSapphire against christians goes unoticed. Following this logic, that any mocking is okay, as long it's not christians who mock muslims, let's mock some deaf people with CI. C'mon let's have...

Good question. It's one of the great mysteries to me. I've read some pretty good explainations in the fields of sociolgy and psychology. I suspect hate comes in different kinds and shapes in different cultures and religions.

You can't support your claims with hard evidence, but I accept it as a faith of yours. It's a question what came first, the chicken or egg. This also don't explain why this "raised OR born" question don't matter much in other parts of the world, and why it's a cultural obession in the western...

Thanks for explaining to other posters. The reason I used "semitic religions" and not Abrahamic, is because the word semitic includes some ethnicity and also the other ancient semitic religions from the area, that differs from the hellenistic culture, that is known for their admiration of noble...

Belonging to God, and finding a purpose with life in that faith, can motivate a specific set of morals given by God, in a robust way. I remember a paper showing that a strong faith was a major factor when looking at who survived the death camps in WWII. Though often ethnocentric, missonaries...

Could you then explain where homophobic ideas come from, or do they just come into existence from nowhere, created by magic sparks of logic?

Show me a secular homophobic person, and I'll show you his/her religious parents. We aren't discussing if homosexuality is good or bad, but if homosexuality is something you are born into, or raised into. This discussion don't make much sense in the other world religions and their cultures...

The only reason to ask this question, is because the semitic religions have claimed modern homosexuality is against the will of God. Once again, seculars are allowed to discuss how wrong those semitic people are, and semitic people aren't allowed to make a reply. Cowards, aren't we? ;)

Audist governor!

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Thanks for the suggestion about the book, will do some reading this summer. The political debate between two US president candinates on a TV show... say no more. Didn't knew about US consitution modeled after natives. That was quite interesting to me as an european. Found a link with some...

Good questions, but how do you know that the future is low context? I'm just speculating, but another possibility, is that in the post-secular(or whatever we call our times of late postmodernism) era, the benfits of high context thinking will become more visible. If that happens, deaf people...