Which one of these statements does not belong?
"Everybody should be a Christian, because Christianity is true"
"Everybody should be a Muslim, because Islam is true"
"Everybody should be a Marxist, because Marxism is true"
"Everybody should be a German, because National Socialism is true"
--- On Sun, 6/28/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> But this is a weird use of "universal value." If a
> universal value is
> something everybody shares, then self-evidently such things
> don't exist. My
> initial interpretation was that Doss meant this in the
> sense that liberalism
> and communism are universalistic ideologies and, say,
> National Socialism
> isn't.
>
> I'll admit being among the ranks of people who comment
> without knowing
> anything. Which elements within Islam concieve of it as the
> cultural
> particularities of their region and which concieve of it as
> the literal
> unironic universal dictates of an omnipotent, infallible
> extradimensional
> entity (with reasonable allowances for differing or
> situationally-appropriate interpretations?)
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