22nd
@rationalists (via vruz)
When moderate atheists talk about tolerance, it’s not intolerance they disagree with, it’s the target.
The idea that all moderate Christians believe that the Rapture is coming is wrong, wrong-headed and precisely the kind of intolerant statement that moderate atheists are so quick to condemn the religious for. Catholics do not believe in the Rapture. Many protestants do not believe in the Rapture. Legions of others who belong to denominations that do believe in the Rapture believe that it’s a parable or an illustrative story rather than literal truth.
People’s beliefs should be accepted as they are as long as they do not harm others. Harold Camping clearly harmed people. But moderate Catholics, as a body, harm no one.
(via mikehudack)
Rafer sez:
I’m happy to learn and apologize if wrong, but are you saying that Catholics don’t believe in a Second Coming of Christ in which good things happen to some people and terrible things to other people?
The jargon is different but how is the substance?
(via rafer)
(via rafer)
