RE: French Terror Attacks, scores dead
November 16, 2015 at 4:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 4:45 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 16, 2015 at 4:25 pm)Vic Wrote:(November 16, 2015 at 2:18 pm)Evie Wrote: It is very relevant: It's thanks to religion that we have suicide bombers like this in the first place.
I think it's more thanks to brain washing and hatred, and damaged empathy. See followers of the very same religion who are outraged and disgusted by the actions of terrorists.
I'm not saying there isn't a pattern of correlation between religious radicalism and violence and hatred, there is. I just mean that this is a bit more complex of an issue than 'religion is bad, without it everyone would just sing Kumbaya and hug'.
I didn't say things would be hunky dory without religion. I'm saying without religion people wouldn't be suicide bombing for religious reasons
Difference.
I've already said I know prayer is harmless and pointless but I don't expect theists I consider friends to try and guilt trip me into praying when I'm an atheist merely because of the severity of the situation. If they want to pray extra hard when extra bad stuff happens fine, but don't try and pressure atheists into praying by saying nonsense like "In times like this even the atheists should be praying". It's a way to lose my friendship if they seriously think I'm a bad person if I don't pray to an imaginary God when suicide bombing is absolutely religiously motivated. It's times like this when I'm most pissed off with religion: 911, Charlie Hebdo and now this. And at times when I'm fucking pissed off with religion, if you're my friend don't expect to be able to guilt trip me into praying to an imaginary dictatorship just because you'll wrongly consider me a bad person if I don't.