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Well, there is your own bias. You are forwarding the very false notion that you can have a reasoned exchange about something a person imagines inside their head with ZERO standard of evidence. Sam Harris said it best, religion is a conversation stopper, and you can see what all of the phony, religious "scholarship" in the middle east has gotten us. Nothing but centuries of war, exploitation and bloodshed.
So according to you, all conservatives, i.e. people who hold different opinions, are delusional bible thumpers.
Accurate? Who is tolerant of mental illness? Why should I indulge the fantasies of others just to be called "tolerant"? Are the religious tolerant of each other? No. That's a ridiculous thing to be upset about. Respect, especially intellectually, is earned.
and that spiritual belief is akin to mental illness
Wrong. It's bigoted when one faith disagrees with another simply because they are different. She wasn't offering her own fantasy as the alternative "truth", she was speaking the fact that when people hear voices, that can be a warning sign of delusion. Having no evidence of a god but plenty of evidence concerning schizophrenia, the "condescension" is warranted.
and that you agree with Behar that spiritual belief is akin to mental illness
Not very, but isn't liberal tolerance something that is constantly being complained about by the right?
Because I've seen yet so little of liberal tolerance, and far more liberal intolerance, such as you are exhibiting in this post of yours right here. The complaints are well founded in fact and exhibited behavior.
Certainly, though, you see the difference between being tolerant of innate qualities, like skin color, and being tolerant of choices, like faith. Can't you? Does that distinction need to be explained again and again before the right will admit that ideas, even religious ones, are not, and shouldn't be, protected against criticism.
Just as long as liberal beliefs are criticized, amirite? I mean that would be intolerable, wouldn't it?
No one is forcing you to believe in any religion, and no one is even asking you to participate if you don't want to.
Shouldn't you at least not belittle and mock those who have spiritual beliefs?
There are hundreds or thousands of different faiths, sects and spiritual opinions. All that tells me is that it's a popular human activity to participate in these various exercises of self-placation. In such a variable rich environment for any person to call their opinion truth, as the Christians do, is to make truth nothing more than a whim or a political change instituted at the point of a sword or the pull of a ballot switch.
I'm not tolerant of many faiths because they aren't tolerant of the facts we live by. I say **** those martyrs who think their god is more important than my lack of one. They are proud robots not moral beings.
Yes, yes. More of that famous liberal intolerance on full exhibition I see. :roll:
Cry for, protest for, demand, and even codify into law tolerance for the beliefs and behaviors you support, and be decidedly intolerant of any others.
Now I'd call that inconsistent in the least, and blatant hypocrisy in the extreme.