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The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 8:01 pm
What do you think the most dangerous religion and why?
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 8:09 pm
The Amish. I've seen stargate atlantis, I know what they're hiding.
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 8:15 pm
At the moment, it has to be Islam. I don't know of any other religion in which its followers blow themselves up in crowded places or cut people's heads off on the internet or just attack random people in the street. Remember that soldier in London?
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Either Islam or Christianity due to the size of both cults and the power they have in the world.
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 8:42 pm
I don't buy it. There are over 1 and a half billion muslims in the world. If terrorism and suicide bombings were endemic to Islam, there were be a lot more.
The Tamil Tigers carried out more suicide bombings than any other group. Yes, that includes al-Qaida. Guess what? They're totally secular.
Islam is a scapegoat. A fact you don't see reported is that even in the taliban and al-Qaida, a sizeable number of suicide bombers aren't particularly religious. The certainly couldn't be considered religious fanatics or zealots.
Claiming that a religion causes terrorism is massively over-simplifying things. You may as well claim that homosexuality causes aids.
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 8:44 pm
Yea Christianity is definitely second on my list mainly due to all the bloodshed in the past. But seriously, if a group of christians like the westboro baptist church somehow got power, they would be far worse than any muslim. All of them are essentially fat, inbred, reincarnations of Hitler except without the brains or speech skills
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 9:28 pm
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(November 4, 2013 at 8:44 pm)Rationalman Wrote: Yea Christianity is definitely second on my list mainly due to all the bloodshed in the past. But seriously, if a group of christians like the westboro baptist church somehow got power, they would be far worse than any muslim. All of them are essentially fat, inbred, reincarnations of Hitler except without the brains or speech skills
In all the videos I've seen of them I've never seen the westboro baptist church commit a violent act or do anything dangerous, usually it's other people being violent towards them.
In fact I'm pretty sure they do still claim to love the people they protest against.
If I was going to point out dangerous things about christianity it would be being responsible for the persecution of witches which I think still happens in some parts of the world now.
That and the crusades although I don't know if you could say that Christianity was responsible for this as I'm not sure if there is anything in the bible that endorses crusades.
Islam is a bit different in this way because people have been killed for insulting Muhammad, Islam does allow you to attack your enemy the same way they attack you but to not transgress, what that means is open to interpretation.
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 9:32 pm
Islam in this century. The took the crown from the jesus freaks who held it for 1500 years.
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 9:35 pm
(November 4, 2013 at 8:01 pm)Gooders1002 Wrote: What do you think the most dangerous religion and why?
The religion that people don't know about due to secrecy
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RE: The most dangerous Religion?
November 4, 2013 at 9:48 pm
Christianity. They have their fingers in every pot. Catholics alone are responsible for genocide of Canadians. No one knows about though, hush hush.
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