byrnema comments on Maybe Theism Is OK -- Part 2 - Less Wrong

-6 Post author: byrnema 11 April 2009 06:32AM

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Comment author: byrnema 11 April 2009 12:34:04PM *  0 points [-]

It was a mistake to use you an example, because everyone's position is nuanced.

However, if you are intolerant of religious views, I don't fully see why you object to my writing that I felt your statements were overly intolerant, as I am arguing for a tolerance of religion that is rather extreme on this forum.

Not certain about the rules for editing -- permission to remove your name in my post?

Comment author: gjm 11 April 2009 12:50:49PM 1 point [-]

You don't need anyone's permission to do that. For what it's worth, my (perhaps over-cautious) policy is that barring really exceptional cases my edits never remove anything substantive; that way, there's no risk that the edits will make other people's comments look silly.

You say "if you are intolerant of religious views", as if I'd just said that I am. I don't really know what it means to be tolerant or intolerant of a particular view (I think toleration is something one mostly does to people), but I'd say I'm entirely tolerant of religious views. I just happen to disagree with them.