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Atheist Professor in Speech at Georgetown says it's okay to attack Christians verbally not Muslims.
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<blockquote data-quote="Eudaimonist" data-source="post: 69105715" data-attributes="member: 6065"><p>Yes, and I don't see why not. If it's just your neck on the line, risk your life if you feel the cause is important enough. However, when one has children, it's not so easy to risk their lives for one's own cause.</p><p></p><p>That might not seem "fair" in some childish playground way, but it is moral.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>He isn't "picking on a weaker kid". He's doing his job as a professor. He isn't punching Christians or stealing their lunch money. He's doing research and expressing his scholarly views. You might not agree with him, and I might not agree with him either, but that doesn't mean that he should be painted as a bully.</p><p></p><p>Don't you understand that one of the great benefits of a free society is that scholars are free to critique their own society, and we are free to benefit from that whether we disagree or not? You should be thanking him.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, he criticizes Christianity because Christianity is not perfect and deserves criticism. He <strong>isn't</strong> criticizing them <strong>because</strong> he doesn't feel safe criticizing Islam. He's simply doing his job in the case of Christians.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, he's giving them what they deserve. He is treating them with justice. He's treating them like mature adults. He's simply afraid to do so in the case of Muslims.</p><p></p><p>You should be happy that he feels free enough to be honest with Christians instead of cowering in fear instead. You should appreciate that he is sharing with Christians his scholarly criticisms of them. Even if Christians disagree with him overall, they might learn something that will benefit them. Muslims, sadly, won't benefit from him. It's their loss.</p><p></p><p>Christians aren't getting the short end of the stick. They are getting the opposite end. It is Muslims that are being treated like wild animals. That is the short end.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>eudaimonia,</em></p><p></p><p>Mark</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eudaimonist, post: 69105715, member: 6065"] Yes, and I don't see why not. If it's just your neck on the line, risk your life if you feel the cause is important enough. However, when one has children, it's not so easy to risk their lives for one's own cause. That might not seem "fair" in some childish playground way, but it is moral. He isn't "picking on a weaker kid". He's doing his job as a professor. He isn't punching Christians or stealing their lunch money. He's doing research and expressing his scholarly views. You might not agree with him, and I might not agree with him either, but that doesn't mean that he should be painted as a bully. Don't you understand that one of the great benefits of a free society is that scholars are free to critique their own society, and we are free to benefit from that whether we disagree or not? You should be thanking him. No, he criticizes Christianity because Christianity is not perfect and deserves criticism. He [B]isn't[/B] criticizing them [B]because[/B] he doesn't feel safe criticizing Islam. He's simply doing his job in the case of Christians. No, he's giving them what they deserve. He is treating them with justice. He's treating them like mature adults. He's simply afraid to do so in the case of Muslims. You should be happy that he feels free enough to be honest with Christians instead of cowering in fear instead. You should appreciate that he is sharing with Christians his scholarly criticisms of them. Even if Christians disagree with him overall, they might learn something that will benefit them. Muslims, sadly, won't benefit from him. It's their loss. Christians aren't getting the short end of the stick. They are getting the opposite end. It is Muslims that are being treated like wild animals. That is the short end. [I]eudaimonia,[/I] Mark [/QUOTE]
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