RE: French Terror Attacks, scores dead
November 16, 2015 at 4:57 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 5:00 pm by abaris.)
(November 16, 2015 at 4:25 pm)Vic Wrote: 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'.
If you want to abstract it even more, religions start out as philosophies, and, carried to their extremes, turn into ideologies. And there really is next to no difference between secular and religious radicalism. If one subscribes to an ideology, all bets are off. And that's what's happening right now.
What I constantly miss in all these discussion, since 2001, is the fact that terrorists follow strategies. The terror is their means, but it's not their goal. The biggest mistake is to take them for fools.
(November 16, 2015 at 4:48 pm)Evie Wrote:
In a nutshell, why I dislike Harris. It's closing his eyes before the contents of the other holy books to make blanket statements on Islam. Maybe it's not even closing his eyes, but a fundamental dishonesty. His politcal writing in the first decade of this century points to the latter.