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In Gaza Siege, Atheist Author Sam Harris Finds Yet Another Opportunity to Disparage Islam

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CuriousLurker8/10/2014 11:44:22 am PDT

re: #26 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Interesting. I’ll have to re-read what you wrote a few times and then think about it some more. So then, technically speaking, provided that a state followed the principles you outlined above, then that fully secular, democratic state, could also identify itself as a specifically “Islamic state” or “Christian state” without any…what’s the word I’m, looking for… I guess I mean without a sort of national “cognitive dissonance”?

I dunno, like I said I have to ponder it some more. My American “melting pot” outlook is very uncomfortable with the ideas in your #2 as I cannot imagine the U.S. calling itself a “Christian state”, even though the majority of the country is indeed “ethnoculturally” Christian. (FYI, I still have a hard time wrapping my head around that concept WRT to religion—i.e. if it’s not specifically religious in practice, then why associate it with a specific religion to begin with? It makes my head hurt just to think about it.)