Reply To: The Strong See Brutalizing the Weak As Their Prerogative. Only the…

[Simon Paynton]

It has to be said, to be fair, that a conscientious Muslim, or a conscientious Christian, will try earnestly and conscientiously to figure out what is the right thing to do, according to their world view.  They use their loaf, they think.  The difference is in the source material and how fixed it is.  The religious books are treated as unquestionable fact; in “rational religion” the source material is scientific knowledge and everyday common sense, with no particular agenda, it’s just a trip of discovery, which is forever open to the possibility of change and innovation.  This doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily better, since each one does exactly the same thing at its core.  But apart from that, each one looks completely barmy to each of the others.  Not everyone’s an intellectual, and each religion is like a different form of art; we wouldn’t get rid of “dancing” in favour of “painting”, we keep all form of arts as equivalent but different ways of doing similar things.