(February 19, 2015 at 2:39 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(February 19, 2015 at 2:37 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I changed my own mind as I was thinking through this...
But I do think it's a little naive to say there is probably not any tactical prowess behind his statements.
I meant more that it's a jump to call it 'a direct tactic to illegitimize ISIS' as you suggested in your first post. I think that's a stretch because plenty of other leaders of both European and Arab countries readily acknowledge the fact that ISIS is Islamic, they just call them a "wrong interpretation".
Gotcha. That makes sense. I agree, then.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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