(September 17, 2014 at 9:40 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(September 17, 2014 at 7:47 am)Brian37 Wrote: According to the article it seems so. This is what I fucking hate about PC liberals. When someone is pointing out the harm religion causes you dont fucking condemn the person doing it, you get angry at the people using religion to harm others.
Why would anyone protect any asshole in any religion, picking up a book, reading it(right or wrong) and using it to justify sexism, homophobia, fear of outsiders and justify violence?
Religion will not go away, but it must be treated as the poison it is, much like you cannot get rid of highways or cars, but you have to pragmatically treat a car like a weapon.
No one can take a Bobcat bucket loader and remove Mt Fuji. But the mistake liberal and moderate believers of ALL religions make, is assuming because the volcano is currently dormant, and because "most people in my religion don't do that", assumes the volcano will never explode.
It is not a matter of "most people do not do that", the poison of religion is that people forget that all it takes is "just enough".
Ayaan has no intent on sticking Muslims in ovens like Hitler did with Jews. But it is bullshit to say that there is no sexism or oppression going on in the Middle East.
I find it quite ironic that Islam is the perfect example of the volcano analogy you make. For centuries they were far more moderate and advanced then the west, now look at them since the ottomans fell.
ARGGGGGGGGGGGGG, ALL religions and I do mean all, need to be treated like that.
Although "athiest" is a position, there are atheists that have created churches and made lists of "moral codes" ant that can turn a lower case "a" atheist into an upper case "A" Atheist into an organized political group and any form of dogmatism to that degree can become a poison.
Religion is group think, to a dogmatic degree and even political parties can become religions and states can become religions.
