I look forward to a day when religious tolerance and freedom means respecting all human rights to and for all people, including freedom of speech and expression.
I am still trying to sort out how to reconcile this notion with the fact that many religions outright oppose a great deal of content that I enjoy freely expressing, as we see in this very case.
Almost without fail you'll find the most influential men and women who brought about significant positive cultural change were worshipers of Christ.
This fails to convince me. Given that the vast majority of people in the times and locations that most of the folks you mention there lived in went to church and claimed Christianity as their religion on pain of at least being shunned and in many cases outright killed, attributing their good deeds to their Christian religion is dubious. See also this fix:
you'll find both really good and really evil people pretty evenly distributed throughout the entire world
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I look forward to a day when religious tolerance and freedom means respecting all human rights to and for all people, including freedom of speech and expression. I am still trying to sort out how to reconcile this notion with the fact that many religions outright oppose a great deal of content that I enjoy freely expressing, as we see in this very case. Almost without fail you'll find the most influential men and women who brought about significant positive cultural change were worshipers of Christ. This fails to convince me. Given that the vast majority of people in the times and locations that most of the folks you mention there lived in went to church and claimed Christianity as their religion on pain of at least being shunned and in many cases outright killed, attributing their good deeds to their Christian religion is dubious. See also this fix: you'll find both really good and really evil people pretty evenly distributed throughout the entire world