Gordon wrote on Aug 19
th, 2017 at 12:34pm:
thecuriousmail wrote on Aug 19
th, 2017 at 9:07am:
We must always be amenable to reason.
Evidence and common-sense must rule.
I think it is right that ideas are tested.
But you can't argue with a religious view, because it's faith, and you can't argue with prejudice, because it's unmovable.
What is disappointing is when someone makes a point and the response is just a personal attack. Lot of that here!
You most certainly argue with religious ideas because after all, they're all just ideas.
There are leftists who are so loath to criticise anything to do with Islam, they give Wahhabism and even the worst aspects of the Taliban moral equivalence because it's a religion.
Revolutionaries, for example, die for an idea.
Religious, christian or muslim, die for their faith. Martyrs.
No logic or reason or evidence ever thought or said or produced will change someone's "faith". They die for their faith, not an "idea": well if you can believe what dying religious people say, and I don't see not to.
I mentioned faith and prejudice as the two prime examples as to where no argument or reason can impact.
Faith and prejudice. The muslim terrorist who kills, and the white supremacist who kills, for example, are different sides of the same coin.