quote of the day
Carlin Romano writes the following in “Are Sacred Texts Sacred? The Challenge for Atheists” from The Chronicle of Higher Education (h/t: Sam Harris) as a reply to the “angry atheist” slur:
“Polite respect ends when believers insist on sacred texts as God’s authorization of those believers to regulate, suppress, or punish the behavior of nonbelievers. In such situations, the atheist’s politeness goes out the window because the believer has thrown his politeness out the window first. Is there anything as impolite — a gentle word, to be sure — as forcing one’s moral rules on another because they supposedly come from a divine being whose existence the other doesn’t accept?” [emphasis added]