RE: Atheism as a teacher
November 16, 2015 at 5:47 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 5:47 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 16, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Tiberius Wrote: In future, if you really want your thoughts to be heard, try to reword them to be less confrontational. For example, instead of coming right out and saying "I absolutely blame islam", ask "But don't ISIS get their ideas from Islam?"
I agree that that is a more sensitive way of putting it but blaming Islam is of course not the same as blaming all Muslims, just as blaming religion is not the same as blaming all religious people. Anti religion is not the same as anti-theist. Anti-Islam is not the same as anti-muslim.