RE: French Terror Attacks, scores dead
November 16, 2015 at 7:04 pm
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2015 at 7:35 pm by Brian37.)
I would rather die from an act justified by religious violence, than to turn away one non violent person with no ill intent. Just like I would not deport an "illegal" Latino just because Trump can point to some violence.
I don't have to like the Koran, or the bible, or religion itself to keep my sense of humanity. We cannot lose our common compassion as a species in the face of such horrors. Now is the time to do better than what was done to us, not use eye for an eye tactics. Go after violent people. Deport violent people or arrest them. Attack the idea of needing religion at all, sure. But don't ever think we are a separate species. Ideas and books do not have rights outside the right to make a claim, but humans always have rights. Suspicion and fear are what they use, we don't need to mimic their fear to keep the secular west in tact.
I don't have to like the Koran, or the bible, or religion itself to keep my sense of humanity. We cannot lose our common compassion as a species in the face of such horrors. Now is the time to do better than what was done to us, not use eye for an eye tactics. Go after violent people. Deport violent people or arrest them. Attack the idea of needing religion at all, sure. But don't ever think we are a separate species. Ideas and books do not have rights outside the right to make a claim, but humans always have rights. Suspicion and fear are what they use, we don't need to mimic their fear to keep the secular west in tact.
