(December 28, 2017 at 5:11 am)bennyboy Wrote: The problem is that by supporting your book of fairy tales, you are indirectly supporting those who take it literally enough to do harm to others.
Drop the fairy tale book please, we have enough real problems in the world without contributing to crazy people thinking murder is a holy venture.
Atlass33 ^^^^^^^^^^^
Keep re-reading this, but trust me, I have the same problem with every single religion worldwide.
EVERY RELIGION in the world, as umbrella labels have competing sub sects, whom cannot agree on how to follow the writings or which holy leader to follow. There is a liberal non violent left, and a conservative "all or nothing" right, IN EVERY RELIGION, to greater or lesser degrees. Not even Hindus or Buddhists escape this.
I really wish my well intended liberal non violent theists friends would try to see what I see, that our ability to do good and be non violent is not in old writings, or in people in funny robes and hats, but in our GENES.
I DO NOT expect religion do go way,no, but this planet is too damned small now, to give so much time and attention to our differences and not enough time to solving global issues of pollution, famine, poverty.
Atlass33 it still remains others under your same umbrella label DO read the same Koran and justify violence with it. But the same can be said for Christians and Jews.
Religion is a HORRIBLE way to conduct national, much less global diplomacy. But we can seek to make governments less dogmatic with the principle of protecting all humans equally.
