The battle of ideas

Jackie Ashley is good in the Guardian today:

To be a liberal does not mean shrugging your shoulders at those who loathe you and hoping that somehow everyone will get on. A world divided between Christian bible-belt fundamentalists, powered by US military and oil interests, and Islamist Qur’an-belt fundamentalists, ruled by misogynistic mullahs, is a bad world, period.

Quite so.  But let’s be clear: the battle of ideas is not between Christian and Islamic religions and cultures. The real battle of ideas is between rational, reality-based thought and religions of all kinds.


8 responses to “The battle of ideas”

  1. dearieme avatar
    dearieme

    What about rational, unreality-based thought?  You know, Marxism and such. 

  2. Owen avatar

    Dearime

    All religion is bad. Not all non-religion is good.

    Owen

  3. dearieme avatar
    dearieme

    Bad for whom?

  4. Owen avatar

    Anyone who cares about reality.

  5. dearieme avatar
    dearieme

    Oh come: if pre-war Germany had stuck to religion instead of cavorting with National Socialism, many people would have been better off.

  6. Owen avatar

    That tells us that some non-religious ideas are worse than some religious ideas. 

  7. dearieme avatar
    dearieme

    Agreed.

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