Stand with Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan -- with democracy and civilization against tyranny and barbarism
posted by Infidel753 at 8:20 PM
Individualist, pro-technology, pro-democracy, anti-religion. I speak only for myself and not for any ideology, movement, or party. It has been my great good fortune to live my whole life free of "spirituality" of any kind. I believe that evidence and reason are the keys to understanding reality; that technology rather than ideology or politics has been the great liberator of humanity; and that in the long run, human intelligence is the most powerful force in the universe.
God doesn't exist
Evolution happened
Global warming is real
Homosexuality is normal
Aging is a curable disease
The election was not stolen
Everything "spiritual" is a lie
Free speech is for everybody
Humans do not have "souls"
Men can't become women
Fetuses are not persons
Words are not violence
Taiwan is a nation
Pluto is a planet
3 Comments:
This is indeed encouraging and it's nice to know that at least in one part of the world people of divergent beliefs can come together.
I think the days when citizens stand by while extremists wreak violence on innocents are long gone. From the plane in Pennsylvania to the heroes of Saturday to this... humans won't stand for this if they really embrace their humanity.
TNLib: Except in the case of the real fanatics, a person is much more than just the influence of whatever malignant mythology they were raised with -- and of course many individuals don't embrace, or may not even know about, the worst dogmas of their own religion.
LA: I hope it's the start of a trend. Egyptians have had plenty of opportunities to see sectarian violence escalate out of control in countries not too far away.
Recall too how many white people in the US supported black equality during the civil-rights struggle, despite the dominant racist beliefs of the time, because it was the right thing to do. Muslim Egyptians who can defend their Christian minority in spite of the Islamic doctrines about "people of the book" are doing the same.
It doesn't seem to be a common attitude, unfortunately. In several Islamic countries, once-large Christian and other non-Muslim minorities have shrunk drastically in recent decades as a rising tide of Islamic fanaticism has frightened most non-Muslims away.
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