(November 16, 2015 at 4:57 pm)abaris Wrote: 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.
Exactly! Religion is only one of the forms of a symptom of an underlying illness. It's just a means. Any ideology could just as easily be substituted in its place.
Quote: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.
^^This^^