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Because you're not impelling minds with the "answers", instead providing the tools and abilities to examine any of a set of possibilities.

…how about tolerance?

gobbledee gook?

Therefore the current idea of tolerance, which came in with the same mentally confusing fog that brought us diversity, multiculturalism, political correctness, and finally cultural suicide [kind of like the symptoms of a disease that ends in the demise of its victim], -is really ‘code-speak’ for the culturally acceptable practice of not taking one’s own belief system seriously.

Nonsense. You know as well as I do that that isn't what has happened over the last fifty years

"Providing the tools and abilities to examine any of a set of possibilities," sounds good, but it's more surely argle-bargle for pre-determined "answers" provided by humanist/atheist culture engineers.

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So, instead of intentially confusing the issue with your pseudo-philosophical "argle-bargle", how about addressing it within the context of the original question?

But didn't you like the part about:

If you were the king of the world, what would you do –abolish religion? Would you pick one religion and abolish all the others?

The Elitist Sacred Morality Story: We humans have long looked to stories of the sacred for meaning and moral guidance. By their nature sacred stories are a matter of faith rather than logic. A version of the sacred story favored by elitists who profess the Christian faith goes something like this.

Nothing happens in Creation except by the will of God who created the world in six days, gave his creation to man in return for strict obedience to his will, and in his infinite righteous judgment favors the obedient with wealth and power. Great wealth and power are thus a mark of the pure and righteous; poverty and suffering are a mark of impurity and disobedience. It is therefore both the due and the responsibility of those God has identified as the righteous to pass judgment on others and to make and enforce the rules that others must follow in the market place, politics, and relations among nations.

The Elitist Secular Morality Story: For secularists more inclined to look to science for insights into the moral order, the elitists turn to the story line of social Darwinism.

In nature progress comes through a competitive struggle in which the fit triumph, the unfit perish, and the species grows stronger. As with other species, so is it true for humans. The victors prove their worth by virtue of their victory and have every right to claim the rewards that are their due without guilt or concern for those who perish in the struggle.

It is important to recognize that these morality stories are more than statements of values. Although morally flawed, they presume to offer answers to deeper questions of meaning and purpose useful in making sense of what often seems an arbitrary and hostile world.

America’s imperialist ruling class of wealthy and corporate elites has been pummeling the poor, minorities, and the working class with impunity for years.

the current idea of tolerance

Siggy wrote:

Perhaps I would, after all see the big light you mentioned, and hopefully it wouldn’t come from one of those vicious Mike Tyson uppercuts that your writer admires so much.

A revitalized labor movement on a global scale could very well be our means to snatch victory from [the soft downy underbelly] of Capitalist Imperialism

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