I don’t always agree with Steve Salerno, but I agree with this.
Sorry. I’m not obliged to recognize your religion’s catechism or its overall lens on life. I’m not obliged to recognize any religion. I’m not even obliged to recognize the idea of a Supreme Being. Your belief in the Ten Commandments is no more inherently valid than someone else’s non-belief. Maybe I climbed a mountain and came down with a tablet that says “Thou Shalt Kill.” And lest you think I’m being purposely asinine, let me remind you that there’s a section of the Qur’an that comes darned close to saying just that.
The only approach that makes sense to me, then, is to take all the Givens off the table. To assume that everything is up for discussion. Every last thing.
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edit: read the comments too. Very thought-provoking rebuttal coming from Tyro in regards to the rest of Salerno’s post here.
