Isun Wrote:And christianity is any different? They have justified discrimination, hate, wars, slavery, you name it in the name of religion. Yet they changed. Not as much as they need, but they are far better than they were 500 years ago. They still justify hate, discrimination and wars, but not as bad.
We can thank reason and I dare say, the atheist for helping moderate the Christian influence yet society, at large, is still permeated with its superstitious signature. Here is a brief, unrelated youtube clip emphasizing just how ingrained the God culture is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ApystbWn0
(Listen to what the people are saying in this short clip)
Isun Wrote:A lot of the problems today in the middle east comes from the tribal culture and quite frankly from poverty. When you live in poverty it is easy to find a greener path on the otherside and justify some of the worst crimes. As muslims move into this country and given time their culture changes. Religion doesn't triumph culture, it is the other way around.
It is arguable but there is something profoundly appealing and fulfilling with regard to human metaphysical contemplation. People love to imagine alternate realities and superior beings...Perhaps it is mankind's way of projecting a sort of human evolutionary archetype to aspire to? Who knows with certainty and to be sure I'm all for promoting that innate human tendency, I'm just not for the dogma and mental; psychological enslavement that often come with it.
"This time the bullet cold rocked ya a yellow ribbon instead of a swastika?" -RATM
