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...editors: David Golding’s comment (“A Defense of Prejudice,” Nov. 2) opens a very interesting line of argument which seems at first to be a breath of fresh air. Certainly any person is free to think about any religion as he will and to communicate his thoughts freely. Golding reasons that a person may communicate his feelings about a religion by voting against an adherent of a religion which the voter holds to be erroneous or unhealthy or just plain wrong. Yet Golding’s argument jars common sense. The wise...
...black or a female candidate on principle is a sign of deplorable bigotry (unfortunately, the same poll also proves that many Americans are still deplorable bigots). I think this moral imperative extends to homosexuals, although the country is belatedly establishing social norms against anti-gay bias. But what about religion? According to a 2003 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 38 percent of adult Americans would personally not vote for a Muslim. Is a refusal to vote for a member of a particular religion similarly unacceptable...
There is, at heart, a crucial difference between intrinsic traits like skin color and gender and philosophical stances like religious conviction. Hatred of a person or a group of people is not the same as hatred of an idea or a religion. It’s the distinction Christians often make when they say, “hate the sin, not the sinner.” It is therefore odious that many Americans would not vote for an African-American, but not necessarily wrong that they would not vote for a Muslim...
...course, one might object that religions are hardly just a set of ideas divorced from reality, that indeed, religions tend to be the product of an ethno-cultural background. But while ethnicity or race often determine extrinsic behavior and values, they are by themselves entirely intrinsic. One is born Indian or black and cannot change this identity. Yet there is always an element of choice, regardless of whether it is exercised, when choosing a religion; we are not chained to ideas at birth. The quintessential example is Salman Rushdie, who was born into an Islamic family but has since become...
...There's a lot at stake. Those who seek but don't find typically abandon religion, often never to return, says Justin Taylor, whose theologica.blogspot.com blog mixes theology, culture and politics. "So many youth ministries quickly become irrelevant to teens," he says, "because pastors get kids excited with cool video clips and cutting-edge music, but then when a parent gets cancer and the teenager is lying in bed wondering what life is all about, he or she discovers there's nothing to sustain them...