All beliefs are open to and should be critiqued - religious, quasi-religious, atheist. Any and all.

All beliefs - the belief that one doesn't choose their sexual orientation, the belief there are more than two sexes, the belief that all races are the same, the belief that race is important in determining the nature of the individual.

The belief in CAGW, the belief in evolution.

The belief that there is such a thing as hate speech. The belief that hate speech should or could be suppressed.

The belief that life starts are conception or 20 weeks or 41 weeks.

Critique everything. Question everything. Never just believe what those you trust say or what you are told to believe.

Question whether it really is easier to just go along with the majority.

Many people have different interpretations.

Robin Williams said:

"No matter what people tell you - words and
ideas can change the world."

It is hard walking the line between those who
would prefer to close down discussion around these issues
and those who would happily use the debate about religion
to further their illiberal and racist agendas.

I believe in a twin commitment to freedom of belief and
the right to criticize belief.

The two may at times conflict, but they could not
exist without each other.

Nothing gained or learned here. Same predictable responses to a question that never needed to be asked - apart from giving the questioner the opportunity to post more times than the half dozen respondents did in total.

There is no right or wrong. If you want to criticise someone's religion you will, as you are entitled to. If you don't want to criticise, you won't, as you are entitled to.

To me, even thinking and asking if it's wrong to criticise someone's religion smacks of narrow-minded totalitarianism.

Not asking is it wrong to criticize someone's
religion - as a discussion topic on a forum of
social and political debate can be viewed as
a form of intellectual cowardice. An exchange of
ideas and thoughts contributes to our learning and
growth as human beings. But as someone said -
"The capacity ot learn is a gift, the ability to
learn is a skill, the willingness to learn is a
choice."

And some prefer the safety of their own rigid ideologies
and feel threatened when the views of others don't agree
with their own.

Of course they can always stay away from discussions they
don't approve of.

Intellectual or just plain old garden variety cowardice is inherent in posters who ask people to state their beliefs before they give own, then hand out a lot of "links". Posters with courage state their case first.

I bet none of us knew that we needed to have
our discussion topics not only approved by
ttbn, but that we had to follow his advice in
the style of how we should post.

And wasn't it he who said that we could not
learn anything from this discussion?

I've just learned a great deal. (lol).

Better check with Graham first though.