Religion cannot object to science on moral grounds. The history of religious intolerance forbids it. — Isaac Asimov Epigraph in Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), 273. Science quotes on: | Forbid (14) | Ground (222) | History (716) | Intolerance (8) | Moral...
against minority groups, many of them fitting perfectly into the typology of human rights violations for religious reasons, as foreseen in the Report on Intolerance and Religious Violence in Brazil (2011–2015), prepared by the Special Secretariat for Human Rights of the Ministry of Women, Racial ...
Also, humans obviously have varying degrees of intolerance toward one another and have a warring nature and will use anything to war on groups of their own species that are unlike themselves (see Chapter 15). Because of the association between religion and war, as well as the pseudo-religious...
The goal of learning religious studies is never to impose a belief system on anyone. Like other disciplines under the social sciences, it aims to deepen our understanding of others’ cultures, values, and history and eliminate intolerance and hate. ...
tolerated in a democratic because it amounts to incitement to hatred, discrimination, violence or intolerance. The Court seems to leave a narrow opening to declare offensive speech without incitement to hatred, hostility, discrimination of violence, as ...
December 2011 Indonesia's reform era there have been cases of splinter groups of the so-called mainstream Muslim organisations showing intolerance and extremism towards minority and heretical groups while using the arguments of Islamic orthodoxy.68 This is actually the real threat to implementing relig...
The justice and interior ministers of the 15 Member States, meeting in Luxembourg on 25 and 26 April, vowed to fight religious intolerance after a wave of attacks on Jews in several European countries. The ministers also agreed to establish the same reception standards for asylum seekers...
While all of that is mainstream Islām, modern radical Islām has exhibited fierce intolerance of homosexuality. Meanwhile, all traditionalistic Islām has strongly endorsed public separation for the sexes, as well as concealment of the female figure, up to and including the face. ...
But to add to that, intolerance is a basic theme of the Qur’an. You stated people have to put into context the Islamic empire and the Qur’an. As a theocracy, they are one in the same, which is why we have Muslim terrorists today. You started to address the issue of Muslims ...
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