Your thoughts on religious discussion in the public forums? Do you agree with Harrison that its biased against non-believers?
- I may put some ideas into the note document, however, what occurred to me during reading this chapter was that some things are blatantly false. Within the Christian sphere, the religious convictions of presidential candidates are regularly discussed. There have been much debates and even books (I think one is available on Vyrso) regarding "Is it okay for a Christian to vote for a Mormon?" And I think that the instances of someone visiting church where the preacher had some non-mainstream thoughts have been covered in the news even in Germany. Harrison has one point in that culture was shaped by Christian values for centuries and thus it may simply be showing that one is part of that culture when a politician makes some weak references to the bible. But I wonder why he wonders that the atheist crusade to make the public forum a religion-free zone comes accross as rude (and taking away some of the foundation of the Western culture without any adequate replacement).