Rubric

I think this depends on whether you're discussing the ideas in an absolute sense or a relative sense. In some situations [particularly when discussion the purpose of suffering or the ...

Now, if you want to drag terrorism here, that's a whole new topic. Because, crime and criminals don't have any religion-no matter how religion-centered they seem. There can always be ...

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

It seems strange to have you agree with me on the value of religious literacy in one thread, only to have you proclaim your indifference to the perspective of other ...

Though an impressive "gotcha", that's not an accurate description of the history of the period Zolen. I'm not saying that the history represents the actions of those movements in a ...

And how would the Shia describe the Sunni?

Lightsong it might be helpful to have clearer categories for what you're discussing. For instance I think it's quite clear that SilverFox is detailing clear problems with a system of ...

Thanks for the response Pretzel. I feel like you've made some excellent points. I will note though that many of your responses are to an argument that I didn't make, ...

This point seems like a critical one, in that while this conversation may seem weighted in favour of cultural or ethnic minorities, it is beating back against a far wider, ...

I do not understand Christians who would read Matthew 6 and think "Yes, clearly mandatory teacher-led school prayer is God's purpose for school." Imposing the practices of a religious belief ...

This election is easily the most important one that's taken place this century, with the eventual president likely to make appointments for both the Scalia and Ginsburg slots [and others?] ...

To be fair though all it takes is one single country doing some stupid move, and then everyone is at war again. The risk now is that every single super ...

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To borrow a line from a different play, the best way to stop terrorism is to probably not be a terrorist, and to repudiate those who use terrorism in your ...

Surely that would depend on a pretty liberal interpretation of "debating people" in its application to this thread?