[uid]

It doesn't surprise me that you also make an assumption about what I believe, considering you sprayed a dozen comments of bile about what Tim Cook believes based on almost nothing.

How about you drop the faux intellectual superiority and just accept what others choose to believe - be it their religious beliefs, political or sexual orientation?

That is the very definition of tolerance - and, ironically, the exact thing that Cook standing up for.

[super_mario]

I don't make any assumption about what you believe. When ever I say "you" in the text above you could replace it by "religious people" and this is the intended reading (if you believe X you are doing Y). Of course I accept what others choose to believe, how could I not. I have to hold people to their word. But of course this is not what you are really saying, you are really saying why don't you stop criticizing what people believe, because their irrationality and superstition is just as good as your reason. Of course everyone is free to believe what they want to, but we are also free to criticize them and ridicule stupid beliefs.

Tim Cook on the other hand is a Christian of the Southern (Alabama) brand.

[uid]

Criticism? Don't flatter yourself. A prerequisite for criticism is being informed, and you not only have little clue to what I or Tim Cook believe, but you have mischaracterized Christianity, Islam and all monotheism - 3.6 billion people and their views stereotyped broadly.

I don't have answers for myself, so i'm not going to pretend to have answers for 50% of the world population. I'm certainly not going to assess their beliefs on the basis that what I might believe is somehow more correct than what anyone else believes.

Intelectual or theological superiority combined with moral authority is what leads to intolerance and hate. I'd rather somebody believe in the easter bunny or pray to Kim Kardashian 5 times a day and be tolerant of others than be closer to my own agnostic view and attempt force it on others because they are more correct.

[super_mario]

Religion is about certainty, but there are multiple religions.

It seems obvious that if people are capable of believing different certainties, then no version can be reliably considered true. Yet there are people who are killing each others children for the kind of Christian they are, let alone Muslims killing Christians, as we speak in fact, because they both believe in opposite certainties. Yet neither side is losing any sleep worrying if the other side might be correct.

Yet it is people like me who point out this most salient of facts that the problem in your mind. This makes you either a complete idiot or a hypocrite.

Faith is the problem. Believing things without evidence is the root cause of most evil on this planet.