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- ukit20
I think you have to look at the culture that is creating these views. Religion is pretty much a blank slate that you can justify anything with. Within Christianity, you can have the Spanish Inquisition and also Martin Luther King, so what does any religion really stand for. People can believe the most ridiculous shit and live completely normal lives.
Someone like Sam Harris or Hitchens, who I mostly agree with otherwise, will say that Islam is inherently worse than Christianity and Judaism but he's ignoring the social and political aspects that create extremism.
- what about the social and political aspects that enslaved the blacks and displaced the indians?hotroddy
- you don't see them blowing themselves up in public or beheading headshotroddy
- Seriously? People have been great at killing each other throughout history, it's nothing newukit2
- A few examples:
http://en.wikipedia.…ukit2 - That may have happened to the first generations of indians but you don't see that today.hotroddy
- That's because the Christian settlers pretty much wiped out an entire race of peopleukit2
- Central and South Americas pop is 90% native. Take Mexico for example - the majority of them are Indian mix - colonized by the spanish.hotroddy
- spanish, and Natives have made great political strides over the centuries without having to blow shit uphotroddy
- True, but it took centuries for them to reach that point.ukit2
- All I'm saying is that all kids of people and religions are capable of horrible actsukit2
- Some of the stuff in that Wikipedia link makes ISIS look like Gandhiukit2
- agreed. And isis is behaving like they were from another time.hotroddy
- but hotroddy, who created and financed isis, as long as you don't want to answer this question, you'll have a void in your povGeorgesII