(January 7, 2015 at 9:28 pm)Exian Wrote: This is usually my sentiment. I try to have a cool head and understand the many perspectives involved in whatever situation, but it's hard to give a fuck about a single moderate when the source of their ideology is also the cause of women being buried up to their necks while they have bricks chucked at their head, or a school filled with children being gunned down, or a man tied up in a public square so his head can be lopped off to become a play thing for the neighborhood kids.
Realistically, I know there's not one goddamned thing that can be done to get rid of all religion, and I hate that. I feel helpless. I know, with the same certainty that the sun will rise tomorrow, that Islam will be the cause of a massive amount of children being slaughtered.
I understand that feeling perfectly. And Muslim extremists commit the sorts of crime that make me want to bring back torture and stone a few people (rather specific people) myself. And then I remember what I don't want to become.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.