Skunkworks said:
Islam has the best of both worlds. They can call themselves the religion of peace and tolerance but it cannot be criticised because the tolerant and peaceful adherents cannot control the violent and intolerant adherents so therefore they plead tis safer not to criticise. Between the peaceful urging no criticism because it will incite violence and the intolerant killing people the religion of peace cannot be effectively debated cos if you do da brothers will get medieval on you. Not a bad little scam really.
A backwoods no account pastor can burn a Koran and instead of being ignored the brothers go ape shit, people die and even the Prez and Vice Prez of the US has to bend over backwards to apologise to the religion of peace and could they stop killing people please.
from the link
Thus one can say Islam is a bad system of thought, while also agreeing that most Muslims are good people. But for some reason this seems a difficult connection to sever.
its interesting that there is a kind of dichotomy between most Muslims are good and at other end of the spectrum Muslims who act on violent beliefs
and we see that across a number of religions, perhaps in slightly different ways today, and in an historical context as well,
I can see a collection of bad ideas in a lot of religions
what troubles me are religous politicans who perhaps can act subconscouisly on some of those collections of bad ideas
if religious people can dismiss deny, ignore any contradicting evidence towards their religion
and what of religious politicians who also can dismiss deny, ignore any contradicting evidence towards their religion
and subconsciously deny, ignore any contradicting evidence that maybe economic, social or scientific or other factual indicators that is not part of their religion carried across as a learned behavior
this is what I fear, and this is what I have observed with our government
the denial or un awareness of epi-genetics concerning the politicians who voted no on gay marriage, the connection there being that epi-genetics controls genetics while a fetus is in development within the womb creating a homosexual human being
think how long it took Catholics to accept the ideas of Copernicus and Galileo
I have no problem with the gay community but look at the Catholic religion, they call homosexuals a sin, when in fact. its a natural occurrence during birth,
its difficult to visualize epigentics and genetics and all the chemicals responses going on during a birth, because we cannot see those aspects of life, they were hidden from us for many years, but look at the social damage homobobia creates
look at the damage of some christian catholic beliefs
do not wear condoms, over population in various areas, religious conversion from native beliefs, against abortion and so on
I applaud various peoples efforts in analyzing and deconstructing various religious beliefs and behaviors, but I keep in mind that these religions have a collection of good ideas as well
separating these collections of bad ideas from good ideas is a challenge for humanity
a mighty one
since people have to be thoughtful, tactful if religious family, friends are around you
