(September 6, 2009 at 6:04 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(September 6, 2009 at 12:01 am)Arcanus Wrote: For example, Christian fundamentalists who bomb abortion clinics use religion to RATIONALIZE their appalling acts, while in reality their professed religion (i) not only does not condone such acts (ii) but in fact condemns it. Such people, if they did not have religious language by which to rationalize their acts, would use the language of the next most convenient thing. Since their behavior is brought to their chosen narrative, and not derived from it, what narrative they use is mostly irrelevant.
I dont think thats true, they bomb the abortion clinics BECAUSE of their beliefs. Without the belief there would be no bombing.
You are trying to put the horse behind the cart.
Does that not mean the same thing? Arcanus said the Christian fundamentalists used their religion to rationalize their acts, hence they acted the way they did because of their beliefs. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war..." - Plato
“Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...” - Richard Dawkins
