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If they believe in and practice bad things, we should not respect them.
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Wow again. Do you know the implications of this? Let me give you a hint, the "bad" people use this argument too.
That's an excellent point. And that is, of course, why we should not just use the word "bad" in the sloppy way that I did. Instead, we should define what we mean by bad things. (One example of "bad" things might be enforced marriage of underage girls.) And not only should we describe what we mean by "bad" things, but we should also be prepared to argue, as carefully as we can, about
why we think that these things are bad. But if we can come up with no better point than that this particular practice is against our belief or our religion or against the will of God, then I think that we have shown ourselves unable to really defend our beliefs with any sort of intellectual arguments.
Ann
