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Originally Posted by sybir
Infidel.
Jesus. If you're going to try to deconstruct another culture's relegious beliefs based on your own, at least spell their term for you correctly
This is the wrong place for a political or religious diatribe, but random slanted web pages are not good sources either way.
<----ex-Christian, hovering between agnostic and atheist, just to get all the cards on the table, with a lot of experience in comparative religion based on personal experience as well as seeking out unbiased historical data.
Plus, no offense intended, I'll never trust a religious person to provide an objective view of another religion. I don't want to hear it, I grew up in a church, was a part of the church, and finally got fed up with organized religion and all the logical fallacies ingrained into the different religious texts based on what we know about our world from a scientific perspective. How can any one group actually be right and everyone esle be wrong?
And, hurrrrrr, durka durka mohammed jihad, but like it or not, almost every organized religion teaches that its members are the only true repenters who will go to their particular interpretation of Heaven/afterlife. Extremist Muslims are just a more visible and aggressive manfestation of common religious teachings about salvation.
Unless you want to forget little things like the Inquisition, the (bloody) conversion of Central and South America.
I'm not against other people being religous, or for other people being atheist/agnostic, and I'm certainly against any sort of religion-based retribution (which, to so some extent, is what a number of Eastern extremist sects use to justify their actions) but making the same uninformed comments about another culture where religion is deeply ingrained over and over again just reinforces the immaturity and narrow world view of the individual making them.
Additionally, I like cheese.
Jesus. If you're going to try to deconstruct another culture's relegious beliefs based on your own, at least spell their term for you correctly
This is the wrong place for a political or religious diatribe, but random slanted web pages are not good sources either way.
<----ex-Christian, hovering between agnostic and atheist, just to get all the cards on the table, with a lot of experience in comparative religion based on personal experience as well as seeking out unbiased historical data.
Plus, no offense intended, I'll never trust a religious person to provide an objective view of another religion. I don't want to hear it, I grew up in a church, was a part of the church, and finally got fed up with organized religion and all the logical fallacies ingrained into the different religious texts based on what we know about our world from a scientific perspective. How can any one group actually be right and everyone esle be wrong?
And, hurrrrrr, durka durka mohammed jihad, but like it or not, almost every organized religion teaches that its members are the only true repenters who will go to their particular interpretation of Heaven/afterlife. Extremist Muslims are just a more visible and aggressive manfestation of common religious teachings about salvation.
Unless you want to forget little things like the Inquisition, the (bloody) conversion of Central and South America.
I'm not against other people being religous, or for other people being atheist/agnostic, and I'm certainly against any sort of religion-based retribution (which, to so some extent, is what a number of Eastern extremist sects use to justify their actions) but making the same uninformed comments about another culture where religion is deeply ingrained over and over again just reinforces the immaturity and narrow world view of the individual making them.
Additionally, I like cheese.
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Originally Posted by sybir
I'm certainly against any sort of religion-based retribution (which, to so some extent, is what a number of Eastern extremist sects use to justify their actions) but making the same uninformed comments about another culture where religion is deeply ingrained over and over again just reinforces the immaturity and narrow world view of the individual making them.
Additionally, I like cheese.
Additionally, I like cheese.
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