(August 16, 2017 at 1:38 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: I see you didn't last long. But my take is that most of us don't have more of a problem with Islam than with Christianity, but most of us think Islamism is a horrible idea and Islamist extremism something that must be opposed. At the same time, in Western countries, Muslims are small minorities vulnerable to discrimination and oppression. It's not inconsistent to want to defend Muslims from discrimination and oppression while wanting to stop Islamist extremism and terrorism.Isn't it odd that people who say they love the sinner but hate the sin should think it inconsistent that we defend the muslim but not the islamism?
Just like it's not inconsistent to want to defend Christians from discrimination and oppression (when they're vulnerable to it, which they sometimes are; though usually from other Christian denominations) while wanting to stop Christianist extremism and terrorism.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
