This lovely letter from Liz Bell shows up in NewScientist (25 April 2015) (paywall):
It also strikes me that the enormous diversity of belief is a source of strength for our species, giving us flexibility, adaptability and options in coping with new challenges. The harm wreaked by fundamentalists and extremists is that they try to remove this diversity and impose uniformity, through moral imperatives, group interest and threatening violence towards dissidents.
I like to believe that by doing so they sow the seeds of the eventual destruction of the systems and societies they are trying to create, as they become unable to deal with new challenges that conflict with their rigid beliefs.
I think that’s absolutely lovely and applies to many things where people don’t see how diversity applies – for example, marriage.
