RE: When will the Middle East become majority Atheist?
March 24, 2015 at 8:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2015 at 8:34 pm by Dystopia.)
Quote:Are we talking about historically or present day? If it is the former, then I could make a strong argument against that statement. If it is the latter, I could still argue the point. Not that it really matters. Both are horrible and dismissing one because the other may be worse is just a fallacy of relative privation. In places like Uganda, LGBT people are thrown in jail and often attacked just for being who they are. They even originally wanted to have them executed. And in PNG women are often still burned alive because Christians there think "witches" are real. The problem isn't so much the religions themselves. They are just a symptom of the underlying issues. We have seen that Christianity and Islam can both be civilized to an extent when they exist in countries with secular laws. safety nets for the poor and proper education systems. However, when you put either of them in a country with rampant poverty, minimal access to education and a government that leans heavily toward being a theocracy, you get the same barbaric and oppressive behavior in both religions.The past is irrelevant to me, what matters is the present. The amount of terrorism committed in the name of Islam is not comparable with any other religion. It is not our goal, obligation or preoccupation to educate Muslims or any other theists - It is the person's duty to learn how to live with secular law. Also, your belief of poor people is disproved by the amount of Muslim men who hold bigoted views and got rich because of oil, etc. We already have immigrants in Europe, we have no need for more since it's difficult to simply employ our own people.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you