(May 18, 2019 at 6:44 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: It's all fault of the Islam: Iran is Shia and Saudi Arabia is Sunni and they want to kill each-other, and in this case Saudi Arabia's Muslim leader want to destroy those heathen Shias in Iran and are trying to convince Trump administration to attack them. I mean really, Atlass, why can't you just abandon your violent religion? Can't you see it's doing you more harm than good? If you all abandoned it then you wouldn't see differences between each-other.
I agree those two theocracies are very tribal and violent. But again, that does not excuse all the crappy shit Christians have done in their history. Look at what is going on currently in America. We have right wing terrorist KKK and Neo Nazis whom support the orange bully, and a party whom is waging a war on women's rights. If there were no Constitution holding us together by a thread right now, it wouldn't take long for our right wing to look like that too.
Religion isn't going to be wiped off a planet of 7 billion. We can and should stand up to all forms of conservative fear and bullying. But it is a bad idea to solely focus on one geographical part of the world in one point in history. All humans are capable of the same behaviors long term.
The west became more civil in spite of religion, not because of it, and the west can backslide into the same violent tribalism we currently see in the east. It is still up to humans of empathy, of all labels to stand up to fear and cruelty regardless of geography.
