RE: This is why islam is vomitously evil.
January 19, 2016 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2016 at 11:51 am by Brian37.)
(January 19, 2016 at 10:59 am)Brakeman Wrote: Feeling mighty PC Brian? We DO know the difference between the person and the belief. The "belief" is an evil con game spurred on over the centuries. It is evil on it's own accord and does not need to be compared to other similar evil lies such as christianity or hinduism. We describe the one's that puff their religion out to atrocities as "extremists" but without the base, the extremism has no seed to grow from.
Would this kid be an extremist? From what islamic party could you exclude him?
Hardly PC. Just saying while ridicule and blasphemy are absolutely vital in keeping religion in check, Islam still is not the only religion on this planet. All three religions of Abraham stem from the same line. Even Ayaan Hirsi Ali who is a huge critic of her former religion, and rightfully so, says the west has it's own religious baggage as well, and we do.
I cannot stress enough the importance of taking a long term evolutionary view as why humans invent religions and gap fill with god claims. You should criticize Islam and even ridicule it, but the evolutionary bigger picture, is that even if Islam suddenly scrapped the idea of theocracy and world dominion, humans are quite capable of creating a new religion in the future with the same global mentality.
YES YES YES, blaspheme all you want. But the fact is, even with atheists, if you forget the mistakes of the past and don't learn from them, you can go on in the future to become the abuser yourself.
Dawkins God Delusion is the evolutionary explanation as to why god claims happen and why religions are invented. They are a result of our species false perceptions. And Victor Stenger's "The New Atheism" explains where our species morality is really coming from, our evolution, not our labels.
Islam does need a verbal kick in the pants, all I was adding was ok, but lets not take our eyes off any religion.