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| Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe Maybe all religious fanatics, intolerant of any belief other than their own, should be made to wear a big sign proclaiming they are a "bigot"? And perhaps people with and attitude like this should wear one with "intolerant tw@t"?
Isn't this how we got to the stage where daft folks feel the need to make a political stand? Political correctness gone mad and a lack of tolerance to other people's cultures and beliefs? |
It's a source of constant wonderment to me what "news" stories DO wind people up. I watch the "news" and see (as opposed to read) the newspapers and I just don't get it, it's just hours of trivial drivel. We live in a society where "cash for honours" is more important than
cash for lunatic torturing dictators. A society where David Blunkett gets fired, not for locking people up without trial, not for stamping all over the civil liberties of
everybody, making up new laws and ignoring old ones as he went, but for "fast-tracking a friend's paperwork". We live in a society which sees little problem spending billions of pounds on so-called "defence", and spends only a tiny fraction of that on foreign aid. Madonna adopting a child is a more important story than the fact that the child lived in a country full of orphans.
Now, my original comment obviously (to me) was not not meant to be taken that seriously, however, you will just have to respect my belief that religion is a bogus collection of historical make-believe, to my mind very much the same as the tooth fairy. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Pastafarianism, Rastafarianism, Zoroastrianism, Paganism etc - I have little tolerance for any of it. (Note that I refer to the institutions, not the practice.) The fact that people actually believe in it mystifies me. I choose to live in a world where real things happen to real people, and supernatural beings do not have a monopoloy on morality.
Anyway, I couldn't care less what the woman wears. Let her have tattoos all over, a pierced nose, wear a hoodie, a big cross with a bleeding man on it, a Star of David, rosary beads, a Burqa, whatever. I don't believe in dress codes in the first place. People should be more tolerant of other people's self-expression. It's a more honest way to live.