World Atheism Conference Starts in Melbourne

[Teresa B]

On the other hand, I read that Europe's casting aside of Christianity is a factor in the Darwinian struggle with Islam, because of their lack of cohesiveness.

That's somewhat contrary to what I've read. That is, the post-war and the rise of the welfare state that services all needs and lately aggressively legal secularism has done a number on religious observance in Europe for the last 60 years. I don't quite understand how Darwinism figures in this.

I didn't read it somewhere else (sorry for confusion), I was referring to Barry's comment about the evolutionary strategy. (And Barry, I did not infer from your comment that the "strategy" is necessarily purposeful.)

So I guess I'm not sure exactly how the analogy flies. In any case, I can see the futility of being tolerant of those who would murder you. As something of an idealist, I would like to think there is some solution other than extreme intolerance--or the other extreme, PC multiculturalism to a fault.

Intergration is the answer, but it won't come from PC multiculturalism. Tolerance is a virtue borne of practical necessity, not something that can be legislated or compelled by refusing to acknowledge legitmate concerns about the loss of a sense of identity.

I agree! It's easy to see that equal tolerance among everyone would lead to a much better situation, and integration/assimilation of immigrants would be the ideal scenario. I would love to have my Italian-American grandparents to talk to about this (they died when I was too young to ask them). They lived here in Tampa in a large Italian/Latino neighborhood, but somehow they coexisted just fine with others in the town, proudly taking on "American" values while maintaining their sense of cultural cohesion.

Teresa

[Daisy]

And these #ssh#l#s accuse other people of annoying them with prosthelityzing! Hypocrits!