Chomsky takes down Hitchens

[kelley]

At 10:48 AM 10/6/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Carrol wrote:
> > Perhaps someone else can provide the historical data in more detail than
> > I can, but I have the general impression that religious toleration is
> > fundamentally a _NON-western_ value, practiced first I think by Islam,
> > and only adopted, and quite grudgingly, by the west after it had almost
> > destroyed itself in the religous wars of the 16th and 17th centuries?
>
>True, but I was speaking only of the present moment.  Clearly, in the Dark
>Ages (to point to only one disparate era) religious tolerance didn't figure
>vary prominently in Western "culture" (if you can call it that).
>
>-- Luke

i think you missed Carrol's first point which is an important one, if true: 
religious tolerance was a non-western value initially.