RE: Are Muslims the real threat? stupid rightist propaganda
August 17, 2017 at 9:40 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2017 at 9:49 am by Brian37.)
Ignorance of not understanding, "That was then, this is now" is a threat to our species, in every religion, not just Islam.
Human beings get sold the religious of their parents prior to having critical thinking skills. NO I am not saying you can force any religion out of existence via government, you cant. But ignorance does lead to divisions even under the same umbrella label, such as Sunnis and Shiite. But the same can be said between white Trump voting evangelicals and black Obama voting baptists, it is still the same religion.
Our species does have the COMMON ability to be non violent and compassionate. But the problem is we don't see the bigger picture enough, we tend to defend that which is local and we are familiar with. Religion won't go away, nobody should delude themselves into thinking that. But it has to be challenged and questioned and even blasphemed when it is used to create divisions and attack scientific fact.
All 7 billion of us are still the same species regardless.
Yes and no. Statistically speaking yes, you are more likely to die from a disease or car accident than a terrorist attack. But it still remains that Charleston SC happened, Charlottesville Va happened and 9/11 happened. It still remains that humans DO pick up holy books and justify harm to other based upon what they read and their indoctrination from others.
The danger of not challenging ANY RELIGION, is you end up with oppressive theocracies like Saudi Arabia or WW2 Germany.
I don't see Atlass33 as an individual as a threat, no, but he does read the same book that Bin Ladin did. Just like WW2 Germans were reading the same bible Martin Luther King Jr did.
Human beings get sold the religious of their parents prior to having critical thinking skills. NO I am not saying you can force any religion out of existence via government, you cant. But ignorance does lead to divisions even under the same umbrella label, such as Sunnis and Shiite. But the same can be said between white Trump voting evangelicals and black Obama voting baptists, it is still the same religion.
Our species does have the COMMON ability to be non violent and compassionate. But the problem is we don't see the bigger picture enough, we tend to defend that which is local and we are familiar with. Religion won't go away, nobody should delude themselves into thinking that. But it has to be challenged and questioned and even blasphemed when it is used to create divisions and attack scientific fact.
All 7 billion of us are still the same species regardless.
(August 17, 2017 at 6:43 am)paulpablo Wrote: Both my Grandfathers survived the world wars, one of them with a stack of medals.
The biggest most recent act of a horrible murder in my local area was by the Muslim who killed those children at the Ariane Grande concert.
But I don't see Muslims as "the real threat" I've never seen any propaganda saying Muslims are the real threat and you're very likely to die from them. I've just seen recent news reports of quite a few Muslims being arrested trying to make plans to kill.
Statistically speaking the real threat to me is cancer and traffic.
Yes and no. Statistically speaking yes, you are more likely to die from a disease or car accident than a terrorist attack. But it still remains that Charleston SC happened, Charlottesville Va happened and 9/11 happened. It still remains that humans DO pick up holy books and justify harm to other based upon what they read and their indoctrination from others.
The danger of not challenging ANY RELIGION, is you end up with oppressive theocracies like Saudi Arabia or WW2 Germany.
I don't see Atlass33 as an individual as a threat, no, but he does read the same book that Bin Ladin did. Just like WW2 Germans were reading the same bible Martin Luther King Jr did.
