Meanwhile... New poll shows record number of Arabs now identify as “not religious”:
~50% young Tunisians
~33% young Libyans
~25% young Algerians
~20% young Egyptians
Like youth elsewhere, young Muslims are leaving religion in droves:
~50% young Tunisians
~33% young Libyans
~25% young Algerians
~20% young Egyptians
Like youth elsewhere, young Muslims are leaving religion in droves:
Quote:“NO TO RELIGION or sect,” cry the protesters in Iraq. “No to Islam, no to Christianity, revolt for the nation,” echo those in Lebanon. Across the Arab world people are turning against religious political parties and the clerics who helped bring them to power. Many appear to be giving up on Islam, too.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"