"Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities."
It's a powerful motivator, to think that 'God' is on your side.
Every religious person walking the planet today is part of the scaffold upon which these murderers sit. We (society in general - even secular society) still, after all this time, insist that believing things for no good reason - i.e. being religious - is perfectly okay, and even something to be proud of.
The religious deserve to be mocked in the same way that you would be if you turned up in a British school and confidently declared that you believe in witchery and voodoo. That is to say that ridiculous ideas with no factual, moral or intellectual foundation should be open to ridicule and pushback. The level of delusion is just the same, but call it 'Christianity' or 'Islam', and it's a protected viewpoint, for which not only are you free from ridicule, but positively shielded from it - by law!
It is absurd. 'Fundamentalists' are not the issue - the fundamentals of ancient religious texts are.
'Pray4Brussels' doesn't help. Opposing bad ideas, and being free and willing to oppose them, is at least a start.
It's a powerful motivator, to think that 'God' is on your side.
Every religious person walking the planet today is part of the scaffold upon which these murderers sit. We (society in general - even secular society) still, after all this time, insist that believing things for no good reason - i.e. being religious - is perfectly okay, and even something to be proud of.
The religious deserve to be mocked in the same way that you would be if you turned up in a British school and confidently declared that you believe in witchery and voodoo. That is to say that ridiculous ideas with no factual, moral or intellectual foundation should be open to ridicule and pushback. The level of delusion is just the same, but call it 'Christianity' or 'Islam', and it's a protected viewpoint, for which not only are you free from ridicule, but positively shielded from it - by law!
It is absurd. 'Fundamentalists' are not the issue - the fundamentals of ancient religious texts are.
'Pray4Brussels' doesn't help. Opposing bad ideas, and being free and willing to oppose them, is at least a start.
