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Author Topic:   The Search for Moderate Islam
Diomedes
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Message 63 of 432 (737050)
09-16-2014 9:34 AM
Reply to: Message 61 by Faith
09-16-2014 9:05 AM


Re: fanatics are fanatics no matter what brand of religion is used
Roman Catholicism did the violent murderous things you say, but not Christianity, not to say they didn't make similar errors at times, though nowhere near that scale. With Catholicism and with Islam they are not errors though, the murders are intrinsic to their belief system.
It wasn't just Catholics that were guilty of performing violent acts. Last time I checked, Protestants in New England were responsible for the Salem Witch Trials.
And as for "complaining" about atheist influence, my whole point was that atheists ALSO work to impose their will on the rest of us since Taq said that's what religions do
Can I please have an example of this? What law and/or judgement was recently passed that allowed atheists to 'impose' their will on others?
And my further point was that method also matters since Islam murders people to impose its will, which is not the method of the other religions named, though that too is not something you'd like to recognize, is it?
Most of the desert dogma religions, i.e. Christianity, Judaism and Islam have all had violent pasts with imposition of their beliefs on others. Religion's key motive is to maximize its followers, which naturally will lead to situations where force is leveraged to ensure the maximum number of believers.

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