(January 18, 2016 at 10:35 am)robvalue Wrote: Mrj: Yeah, Christians just annoy homosexuals rather than kill them, but it would be different if there wasn't secular law in charge. In a Christian theocracy, I'd expect just as much savagery as you see in an Islam one.
Of course not all Christians would be violent, and the fact that they have grown up in a secular society means they have a respect for the law as well as their religion. But if they were raised with nothing but religious dogma, things would be very different.
What sickens me, is that I also have to deal with female atheists who vote republican. Yep, they do exist. Dealing with one right now on twitter. She is so quick to say "we don't do that here" and blames liberals for coddling the insecurities of treatment of women in Islam.
Well yes and no. It depends which "liberal" you are talking about. Not this liberal, me. I have gotten pissed at some of my fellow liberals for example, wanting Ayaan Hirsi Ali banned from speaking at colleges.
And she knows damned well that the bible does no better in it's depiction of gender rolls than the Koran. It pisses me off more when especially an atheist makes the same mistake in logic, morso than the well intended liberals she wants to blame.
Religion in the west became civil in spite of religion. Our evolutionary empathy has caused the west to over ride those horrible bible stories. The underpinnings of theocracy are still there, and we still see attempts constantly at making religious law public policy.
Our right wing Christians are half assed bigots. The violent nuts in Islam are not half assed, if they don't like you, the mob murders you or the state does it. Kim Davis is a half assed bigot. If she truly believed the bullshit she spews about homosexuality, she would do what Islam does, throw gays off rooftops. I am glad Kim is a half assed bigot. I am glad, even if she is unaware of her bad use of logic, that her empathy stops her from going as far as getting violent.
