RE: Why do people on here act as if Islam if no worse than any other faith?
April 21, 2016 at 9:35 pm
(This post was last modified: April 21, 2016 at 9:36 pm by popsthebuilder.)
(April 21, 2016 at 6:41 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: I feel like The Abrahamic religions in general are the worst religions because they openly proselytise. You can't live in a predominantly Christian or Muslim society without running into people who are intolerant of your personal life choices. When these religions are given power, that intolence very rapidly escalates into violence.There is a difference in intolerance/ violence, and helping people. Those of Abrahamic Faith are not to be violent or intolerant. One of Faith might attempt to give advice and or help a person in many other ways, but that is a far stretch from encroaching on one's freedom, and isn't related to violence in any way. How often does one attempt to invite you into church or something within a normal public setting when you aren't proclaiming your atheism in some way?
And in the 21st century, that's the difference between Christianity and Islam, power. If radical hardline Christians want to push for legislation to suit their agendas, their movement will be squashed by secular laws and social ridicule across The Western World. When it's hardcore Muslims? They not only have financial and political backing by several Islamic states which are governed by Sharia Law, they also have white-guilt-ridden Western apologists delusionally defending their "culture" like it's so benign and advanced. They can get organised.
It's a conservative culture overall. I know there are liberal Muslims out there, who are feminists, LGBT, secularists, they do exist, they are out there, but that's not the same as Islam as a whole culture being such. It's still a conservative culture overall. People are a product of their environments and their upbringings, if you are raised in ultraconservative religious surroundings you are more likely to grow up conservative. That's not a bigoted idea, it makes sense.
The "agenda" of the faithful of GOD is to help humanity. Some might argue that, in which case I would advise them to read the core texts of the Faith of Abraham without preconceived bias instilled by man in some way.
Peace
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.