Wednesday, August 11, 2004

Faith: A Monopoly on Self-Rightousness?

The Marks on Morning Sedition were talking about faith. One of them said that, "if you have faith in something, you must think that everyone else is a little bit wrong".

The only thing profound or new about that thought is the idea that it only applies to religious faith.

Any time you talk about 'tolerance' for another point of view, you are saying that, while you think the other guy is wrong, you will tolerate that wrongness.

And religion is far from the only thing where people won't even express tolerance for others: in my experience people who try to to convert me to veganism are as annoying as those who try to convert me to Christianity.

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