(October 16, 2012 at 5:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Religion, in itself, may or may not condone these barbaric atrocities - though in practise many of them do - however, religion does make justifying them far too easy. It's a perfect umbrella for the criminally and psychopathically despotic (try saying that six times fast).
Many in the west are bent no matter how right on picking on Islam. And as much as I agree that it is a problem, the evolutionary history of humans would dictate that even if Islam were to fall tomorow some new superstition could or would be invented to justify future horrors.
If you look at our entire history of human evolution and credulutity we default far too much to tribalism and wishful thinking in the terms of religion and politics. It allows our species whom would otherwise under other conditions, to murder others who want the same basics we want. "They" is all it takes to justify murder of another human in a world were all humans want the same thing.
