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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching all of this unfold, One Phrase keeps rolling around in my head
"Live and let live."
Yes, it is a cliche. But the more people practice that ideal, the better off everyone is. The less we practice it the closer we move the earth towards hell.
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Watching all of this unfold, One Phrase keeps rolling around in my head (Original Post)
Armstead
Apr 2013
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snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)1. People who embrace ideologies can never embrace that sentiment.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)2. I think one can have an ideology and still practice that
It does not imply that people can't have disagreements.
But I guess it's a spectrum based on levels of tolerance for ambiguity and differences.
The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)3. Nice idea, but there's just no way to do it
Armstead
(47,803 posts)7. No way to do it universally, but as a goal the more it is practiced the better off we all are
aristocles
(594 posts)4. You haven't read the Koran, have you? nt
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,191 posts)5. You haven't read much period, have you? nt
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)6. The Koran is just like the Bible,
you can find examples of a loving, merciful God, or a wrathful, angry God.
"If you kill an innocent person it is as if you have killed the whole of humanity".
It all depends on the reader/believer.
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.