(February 14, 2015 at 3:53 pm)Brakeman Wrote:(February 14, 2015 at 12:55 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Nope. Not a good comparison. We are not in a physical war with Christians or anyone else. To compare their feeble attempt at a theocracy with murderous fascism is a stretch.
And to even suggest that this person may have done something to advance anything is ludicrous. The questions are not apt.
Yeah..right! That's disingenuous. ISIS & Al Qaeda muslims certainly think they are in a war with the non-believers. Their writings and propaganda is every bit as evil and violent against others as Nazi literature ever was. Your choice to refer to christians instead of muslims is telling. We're not at war with Buddhists either, duh, but it is not so clear that we are not at war with muslims as we just signed war powers acts to fight them in the form of ISIS and Al Qaeda. They are spilling our blood and making non-muslims convert or die.. That's pretty war like even if you don't want to admit it.
At least the Nazis gassed their enemies before burning them..
Once again, most humans get focused on the moment, and religion is a much older concept than any current held one today, and we know humans made up gods even prior to the first known written language.
Religion is an unfortunate side affect of our evolutionary grouping, a gap fill, a result of flawed perceptions. Humans create groups that are centered around bad guesses. It does have the benefit of safety in numbers and opportunity of resources and offspring. But in doing this it does not reflect our species knowledge of psychological understanding as why we group around any idea, even when false.
