RE: Can you be angry at "god" and simultaneously disbelieve its existence?
July 15, 2015 at 12:02 pm
(July 15, 2015 at 11:58 am)Crossless1 Wrote:(July 15, 2015 at 11:50 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Just curious, I have noticed that when talking about the "horrible things" people of faith do, Islam is hardly ever brought up. Even though they are the worst in regards to doing bad things in the name of faith these days.
Don't get me wrong, the Westboros are vile and deserve all the criticism they can get. But if I were to talk about people influenced by their faith to do heinous things, the first thing that would come to mind is Isis, not the Westboros.
They're the ones out there making women wear burqas, continually killing men women and children simply for having a different faith ever since they first came into existence 1400 years ago, and having a particular hatred for Western societies.
The Westboros are bad, but at least they are a small group of 30 people who don't actually kill anyone. Isis is much worse.
Fixed that for you.
You think in the past 1400 years Christianity has done more vial things than Islam?
If so, fair enough. But it just seems like even if that were the case, we'd be naturally more apt to talk about how things are currently rather than how they were centuries ago. Christians did some horrible things in the past 2000 years, but I believe things can change and none of those people are alive anymore. Right now it seems radical Islam hasn't changed, as they have never stopped being extremely violent.
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