re: #163 Ojoe

Perhaps this state of things only means that there are places that the violence cannot now reach.

And that’s the beauty of modern society. It has less to do with religion than it does with how religion changed after the Enlightenment.

We adopted a different world-view after the 18th c. which changed how we see ourselves in the world, how we view the role and responsibility of religion and how we value the lives of other humans.

I think that what’s going on in Iran is an indication that that outlook is starting to win in the global marketplace of ideas, but it’s not going to change overnight. Putting hatred in to the mix is not going to help that.

As a world, we need to base our interactions with each other on the ideals that we judge American First Amendment rights by - think and even say what you want, until you get to the point of harming other people, then we’ll shut it down. It’s not what they believe, it’s what they do.