Globally Rational

Paul Peterson wrote a great article on his blog a couple of days ago.  I won’t do him an injustice by just repeating the whole post here, so I’ll just link to it (click here) and give you an excerpt:

I mention all of this only because of the phrase “anti-christian propaganda”. Facts are not propaganda. Facts sometimes lead a person to believe things that are anathema to a given creed or belief. That is the opposite of propaganda. Christian institutions have historically doled out there fair share of propaganda in the name of the faith. Should I conclude from this that they can dish it out but they can’t take it?

I think I’d like to expand “Christian” to “Christian/Muslim/Jewish/others.”  I don’t have a problem with monotheistic religion (I call myself “Muslim”), but I’ve noticed many of my people use religion as an excuse to dismiss facts as “propaganda” seconds before they start spewing a counterargument filled with propaganda.  Read Paul’s article; I would have written about it myself if I’d thought of it first.

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