(September 21, 2016 at 5:29 pm)Jesster Wrote: I'm not a fan of Islam, but I'm certainly not accusing Muslims of being terrorists. However, I'm also not about to start believing that ISIS isn't an actual threat from that region. The USA (and other countries) may be guilty of going overboard on accusations of Islam and all things related, but that doesn't mean that there isn't something there to worry about at all. That threat is very real. This is just another conspiracy theory that I will need mountains more evidence for me to even start tiptoeing into.
I am not a fan of bad logic, regardless of label. That region of the planet is still living further back in time both Saudi Arabia and Iran, but it isn't like North Korea is a picnic for dissenters.
Christianity, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhism, were all started in an age of ignorance. I don't mean humans are bad, I simply am saying humans made up claims and sold those claims when they didn't have benefit of modern knowledge.
Christianity in the west also has it's own fear mongers and morons.
Nobody invented violence, humans even prior to written religion or nations were grouping and fighting each other.
ISIS is to the middle east, what Nazis were to WW2 Germany, what our KKK and Neo Nazis in America are to Christianity.
All of those groups of zealots use their respective religions to justify violence to outsiders. This willful ignorance is a global issue to greater or lesser degrees depending on geography, and generational time era.
Reading things like this constantly urges me to remind my fellow humans, that they need to consider that our actions as a species, are not caused by magic divine beings, or spirits, nor are caused by holy writings, but behaviors our species has always displayed, both good and bad.
I agree most Muslims are not terrorists. Most humans, for that matter, if it were not for the divisions the powers over them sell to keep power, most humans want peace, want to feel safe in their environments and want a means to survive.
In a very real sense, one could take a 3 year old, a 5 year old and a 2 year old from different parts of the world, with completely different backgrounds, and if the parents have not indoctrinated them going into that room, those kids would automatically form their own relationships without adult influence. Point is hate isn't born in a baby, it is sold to them by parents.
It isn't to say I don't hate myself. I do, but my "hate" isn't of my fellow humans, but hate of bad logic that leads to bad claims that powers of the world use to manipulate others into following causing needless divisions, and religion is the biggest and easiest way to play on the emotions of supporters, regardless of label.
