[MD] New Model Army, Mystic(DQ) Experience, and Religion (SQ) as Power

[david buchanan]

Ian said to dmb:
...If the US institutional theistic attitides are as strong as you say, 
giving up on reasoning with moderates and choosing direct conflict with 
extremists, tarring all theists with the same extremist brush, sounds like 
the surest recipe for the rapture or armageddon. Some would say that's 
actually what the extremists are hoping for. ...Searching for common ground 
is much likley to involve the moderates.

dmb replies:
I guess we just have to accept the fact that we are not going to agree on 
this point. I follow Sam Harris in thinking that the moderates are a big 
part of the problem insofar as they give cover to the extremists and/or ask 
the critics to take it easy on the extremists. This is why your attempts to 
play things down the middle bug me so much. I mean, what exceptions do you 
think I should be listing in this conversation? Unless you can identify and 
describe a version of theism that would be acceptable in the MOQ, you're 
just not helping. Otherwise you're just telling me that some Christians are 
perfectly nice people, which is something everybody already knows.

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