Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
5. Some people's morality (if you can call it that) is entirely relational.
Mon Oct 27, 2014, 02:49 PM
Oct 2014

Christians are legitimate targets only because they're a more immediate threat in domestic politics, while the fact that right-wingers constantly demonize Muslims means that Islam must be a peace-loving progressive religion.

People whose reality is a social construct always end up believing absurdities like that. The only way to avoid it and stay in contact with some form of objective reality is to examine things from moral first principles.

E.g., what does an idea do? That's how one should judge it, not by a bunch of social relationship analogies with one's self at the center of the universe.

Objectively, Islam is (currently) more anti-liberal than Christianity by a very large margin. The only way anyone can argue otherwise is attempt to silence anyone who says so with mendacious smear campaigns, calling courageous voices of reason and truth "bigots" - a sick and Orwellian lie if Bill Maher is the target.

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»It seems at times some of...»Reply #5