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DwnWthVwls 11-22-2014 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1511617)
In real life, I know two Muslims and they're both good people.

But when I watch the news it's hard not conclude that Islam has a little extra nasty running through it.

The news only reports bad sh*t, it's not hard to draw that conclusion about anything when you watch it.

Frownland 11-22-2014 06:12 PM

This just in, Muslim woman prays five times a day and gives half her paycheck to the poor. Now here's Tom with the weather.

Ja the bad stuff is more interesting.

Cuthbert 11-22-2014 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1511622)
I think that's just a product of the times and culture similar to the slavery verses in the Bible. Not enough to call the Quran a hateful scripture IMO. Next.

Well that's OK then.


Tommy Robinson calls BBC Asian Network and responds to critics. 01/10/2014 - YouTube

17 mins in. Muslims phoning in and admitting the Qur'an needs to be reworded. Do you know more about Islam than they do?

22 mins for the second lad.

"Certain verses in the Qur'an, you cannot justify them"

Chula Vista 11-22-2014 06:20 PM


Frownland 11-22-2014 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke (Post 1511626)
Well that's OK then.


Tommy Robinson calls BBC Asian Network and responds to critics. 01/10/2014 - YouTube

17 mins in. Muslims phoning in and admitting the Qur'an needs to be reworded. Do you know more about Islam than they do?

22 mins for the second lad.

"Certain verses in the Qur'an, you cannot justify them"

When did I say that I knew more about Islam than devout Muslims? And by that logic Muslims can't be wrong or misguided about the Quran? I agree that some verses are unjustified and could use rewording as well as there being issues with Islamic culture as we see it today run by extremists. But I think people forget that Islam is largely about love, sacrifice, and brotherhood by focusing on outsated verses such as that one. I'm not trying to be an apologist because there are certain verses that could lead followers to bad actions but I think it's a widely misunderstood religion because of those verses and people missing the bigger picture.

Cuthbert 11-22-2014 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1511630)
When did I say that I knew more about Islam than devout Muslims? And by that logic Muslims can't be wrong or misguided about the Quran? I agree that some verses are unjustified and could use rewording as well as there being issues with Islamic culture as we see it today run by extremists. But I think people forget that Islam is largely about love, sacrifice, and brotherhood by focusing on outsated verses such as that one. I'm not trying to be an apologist because there are certain verses that could lead followers to bad actions but I think it's a widely misunderstood religion because of those verses and people missing the bigger picture.

It's hateful scripture. Sweet victory.

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Islam is largely about love, sacrifice, and brotherhood by focusing on outsated verses such as that one.
I don't know why you object to me saying things like this:

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- Hateful scripture
And then claim things like that. Have you actually read the Qur'an?

I was going to convert in 2011, can confirm I have visited a gurdwara and am now looking at Sikhi.

Frownland 11-22-2014 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke (Post 1511634)
It's hateful scripture. Sweet victory.



I don't know why you object to me saying things like this:



And then claim things like that. Have you actually read the Qur'an?

I was going to convert in 2011, can confirm I have visited a gurdwara and am now looking at Sikhi.

Because those are select verses that aren't about the big picture of what the Quran paints, that's why. It's like saying Obamas entire career is focused on immigration reform but that's really only a small part of it. I've read the first six chapters of the Quran, but I'll be taking an Islam course next semester so I imagine I'll be reading more.

Pet_Sounds 11-22-2014 06:53 PM

All religions and cultures are not created equal, regardless of what anyone tries to spoonfeed you.

OccultHawk 11-22-2014 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds (Post 1511640)
All religions and cultures are not created equal, regardless of what anyone tries to spoonfeed you.

Yeah. I mean people don't want to face it but that is the simple truth.

John Wilkes Booth 11-22-2014 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1511625)
This just in, Muslim woman prays five times a day and gives half her paycheck to the poor. Now here's Tom with the weather.

Ja the bad stuff is more interesting.

thats why i love vice news

Cuthbert 11-22-2014 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1511638)
Because those are select verses that aren't about the big picture of what the Quran paints, that's why.

No, I said there is hateful scripture in the Qur'an. You've not proven me wrong by saying it's only certain surahs.

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I'll be taking an Islam course next semester so I imagine I'll be reading more.
Well when you do, come back and chat to me. When I read the Qur'an, I was concerned. Less than impressed shall we say. In fact I was horrified.

Islam is scum.

Frownland 11-22-2014 07:32 PM

I guess I misinterpreted what you said then. Carry on.

I'll let you know if I hate Muslims by the end of the course. I doubt I will because I know how moderates tend to take things with a grain of salt.

John Wilkes Booth 11-22-2014 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke (Post 1511607)
If there was a law that could be interpreted to say that it's OK to beat your wife, should we leave it and say domestic abusers are taking it out of context or should we change it so that it's clear it's not acceptable?



This annoys me. Liberals constantly shout down critics of Islam saying that those who are extreme or violent are not real Muslims, who are they to say that? It's exactly the same as saying extremists are the real Muslims.

Islam is the one religion which is consistently producing evil around the world wherever it goes. Western Muslims will say Islam is being interpreted wrongly but it's bollocks, in all the hundreds of years, and the dozens of countries who have implemented shit like the Sharia not one has managed to get it right? And this from a book which claims to be perfect, clear and from God.

- Hateful scripture
- Scripture being interpreted as hateful and taught as such
- Bad acts carried out

Islam ticks all the boxes mate.

islam is the most ****ed up major religion i think in general... but people cling to it as a sort of cultural identity so it's like when you attack islam you'e attacking all the people they love and what they stand for. but at the end of the day the strict interpretation of it is pretty ****ed up imo. most of the cool muslims are the ones who will gloss over the negative and focus on the positive, which is basically what christians and jews do too. so that's why you shouldn't attack islam in general cause there's a lot of decent people with cultural ties to it.

Cuthbert 11-22-2014 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1511662)
I guess I misinterpreted what you said then. Carry on.

I'll let you know if I hate Muslims by the end of the course. I doubt I will because I know how moderates tend to take things with a grain of salt.

I'm not talking about the people, but it makes a change to come to an amicable disagreement.

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth (Post 1511663)
islam is the most ****ed up major religion i think in general... but people cling to it as a sort of cultural identity so it's like when you attack islam you'e attacking all the people they love and what they stand for. but at the end of the day the strict interpretation of it is pretty ****ed up imo. most of the cool muslims are the ones who will gloss over the negative and focus on the positive, which is basically what christians and jews do too. so that's why you shouldn't attack islam in general cause there's a lot of decent people with cultural ties to it.

Agree mate. & I'm well aware. I live in a part of the city which is probably half Muslim, but went to college and previously lived in predominantly Islamic areas. Anyone trying to tell me not all Muslims are like that is wasting their time.

& Yes Islam is fucked up. I never faced any punishment leaving Christianity, I do know a girl on my university course who was kicked out and homeless for refusing to wear the hijab, and another who was kidnapped from the campus.

OccultHawk 11-22-2014 07:46 PM

Bush, Reagan, and Nixon were Christian murderous thugs.
Mao and Stalin were atheists I guess.

That makes me think, "Well, it's hard to say."

But I, unfortunately, live in a very conservative Christian community and it's hard to imagine the people here wanting to kill someone for writing a book like the Salmon Rushdie fatwa or wanting to kill that Dutch cartoonist. So I think man those people are whack jobs. Then Americans keep wanting to expand a military that's like 20X the size of the next largest or whatever. That's completely insane, too. It's hard to be the most bat**** on this planet.

John Wilkes Booth 11-22-2014 07:47 PM

yea like i said they're the most ****ed up i'll give you that. some try to pretend like it's equal but really in terms of serious radicalism muslims are at like a 9. christians are at maybe a 4 and jews are hovering around 1 (excluding the ones that live in israel).

edit- to add to that, your christians are extremely tame compared to ours. there are parts of america where you really might start seeing some similarities between osama and these backwoods people.

Cuthbert 11-22-2014 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth (Post 1511671)
yea like i said they're the most ****ed up i'll give you that. some try to pretend like it's equal but really in terms of serious radicalism muslims are at like a 9. christians are at maybe a 4 and jews are hovering around 1 (excluding the ones that live in israel).

You'll get no complaints from me :cool:

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edit- to add to that, your christians are extremely tame compared to ours. there are parts of america where you really might start seeing some similarities between osama and these backwoods people.
I've seen some documentaries from Louis Theroux on the Westboro Baptist Church & a lad in America coming out as gay and being beaten by his Christian family, fucked up.

My mom is from the Caribbean and Catholic, dad's Church of England I think. Only my dad practices religion. Nothing happened when I said I didn't believe in those fairytales.

Thank fuck I wasn't born into Islam.

John Wilkes Booth 11-22-2014 08:34 PM

yea i'm from a laid back catholic family myself. they basically believe out of guilt but don't focus on that **** too much.

John Wilkes Booth 11-22-2014 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1511670)
Bush, Reagan, and Nixon were Christian murderous thugs.
Mao and Stalin were atheists I guess.

i'm sorry but these talking point really tend to annoy me. none of the above was done in the name of christianity except maybe on the face of it bush but really it was just basic geopolitics.

as for the atheist atrocities. isn't a coincidence that every atheist atrocity happens to be in some communist dictatorship. stalin and mao weren't like "****, since there's no god to stop us lets eliminate unwanted ethnic groups and exploit peasants to the point of starvation for the benefit of our own regime." they were atheists cause marxism saw religion as a threat so atheism was built into the ideology but besides that it's mere circumstance that they happened to be atheistic regimes that committed genocides. they didn't kill 50 million people in the name of 'who gives a **** since there's no god anyway.'

The Batlord 11-22-2014 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1511638)
Because those are select verses that aren't about the big picture of what the Quran paints, that's why. It's like saying Obamas entire career is focused on immigration reform but that's really only a small part of it. I've read the first six chapters of the Quran, but I'll be taking an Islam course next semester so I imagine I'll be reading more.

The Bible's all about love too. And yet there are still verses about women getting turned into salt, homosexuality being an abomination, women being executed for being raped in a city but not in the countryside, etc. Religions can have a peaceful big picture while having details that lead to atrocities. And yet it's somehow wrong to mention these things. I get that people are worried about Islamophobia, but we still have to live in a world that religious fundamentalists (and moderates) of all faiths create, so this idea that religious beliefs should be immune from public criticism is nonsense.

Not that I'm saying that's your point, but it's still an important point to make.

OccultHawk 11-22-2014 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth (Post 1511688)
i'm sorry but these talking point really tend to annoy me. none of the above was done in the name of christianity except maybe on the face of it bush but really it was just basic geopolitics.

as for the atheist atrocities. isn't a coincidence that every atheist atrocity happens to be in some communist dictatorship. stalin and mao weren't like "****, since there's no god to stop us lets eliminate unwanted ethnic groups and exploit peasants to the point of starvation for the benefit of our own regime." they were atheists cause marxism saw religion as a threat so atheism was built into the ideology but besides that it's mere circumstance that they happened to be atheistic regimes that committed genocides. they didn't kill 50 million people in the name of 'who gives a **** since there's no god anyway.'

I do think it's harder to separate crappy things Muslims do from their faith but I still think you could make the same geopolitical arguments if you wanted to.

Islam is probably the worst but since there's almost zero Islamic presence where I live I'm not that worried about it. I'm more worried about the horrible things my own culture is up to.

John Wilkes Booth 11-22-2014 09:30 PM

yea you can make those arguments to an extent. you can blame western imperialism in the middle east for propping up the mosques as the only true cultural symbol of power where their traditions reign. and you can say they probably resent western imperialism in general and are salty about losing their caliphate however many years ago which pushes them toward islam as their last bastion of hope for reigning supreme once again.

but at the end of the day a lot of the islamic extremists are wealthy well educated men who really do hate western values and believe every word that they say with regard to representing islam. so there's an irrational religious element that isn't quite as prevalent with the christians for the most part. not to say we don't have nutty ones like that but the ones with political power are more the type to cynically exploit those irrational sentiments in the masses all the while pursuing a real and logical (and selfish) goal.

Chula Vista 11-22-2014 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1511689)
And yet there are still verses about a woman getting turned into salt.

For looking over her shoulder. The old testament is ridiculously misogynistic.

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DwnWthVwls 11-22-2014 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1511708)
For looking over her shoulder. The old testament is ridiculously misogynistic.

It scares the sh*t out of me there are that many varieties of crazy.

John Wilkes Booth 11-22-2014 09:57 PM

why? that's like being scared there's so many varieties of food to eat. it all comes out the same way at the end of the day anyway.

Pet_Sounds 11-23-2014 06:01 AM

I'm a Christian, and let me tell you, if it wasn't for the New Testament, I'd have bailed.

DwnWthVwls 11-23-2014 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds (Post 1511784)
I'm a Christian, and let me tell you, if it wasn't for the New Testament, I'd have bailed.

Is that where it gets logical/morally philosophical, and less "faithy"/ridiculous?

@JWB - I was just taking the opportunity to make a snide comment about religion. Nothing serious about that post.

Lord Larehip 11-23-2014 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1511600)
Besides, how are you gonna tell me that some crackpot cleric who's been reading and dissecting the Quran his entire life doesn't have the right to claim some level of expertise? He lives and breathes Islam in a way that most of the people claiming that he misinterprets the text never could. Maybe God really does want believers to kill the infidels.

According to the Quran, THAT is exactly what Allah wants. Non-believers are to be converted and if they do not convert, they must be tortured and killed.

Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Quran (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them."

Note that the Quran is not referring to a military enemy but those that have committed the audacious crime of disbelief or non-belief. They are either to be killed or beaten into submission. Need more?

Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

Quran (17:16) - "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction."

Quran (33:60-62) - "If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter."

There is true Islam--kill your neighbors. Don't like their lifestyle? Slaughter them. If you don't, Allah will punish in the Hereafter:

Quran (9:38-39) - "O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place."

And those Muslims who refuse to take part in slaughtering and subjugating non-believers?

Quran (4:95) - "Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,-"

According to Islam, pacifists are just lazy!!

The Quran and the Hadith are full of this garbage.

Question:
Does Islam permit a man to hit his wife?

Summary Answer:
Yes, but only if she doesn't do as he asks. The beating must cease if the woman complies with her husband's demands. Beating is also intended to be the last resort of coercing submission, behind verbal abuse and abandonment.

According her testimony in the Hadith, Muhammad, physically struck his favorite wife for leaving the house without his permission. It is not known how he treated his less-favored wives.


TheReligionofPeace - Islam: Can a Husband Beat His Wife?

And this is supposedly Allah actually speaking to Job:

Qur'an (38:44) - "And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with it, and do not break your oath..."

From the Hadith, which is a particularly barbaric document:

Bukhari (72:715) - A woman came to Muhammad and begged her to stop her husband from beating her. Her skin was bruised so badly that she it is described as being "greener" than the green veil she was wearing. Muhammad did not admonish her husband, but instead ordered her to return to him and submit to his sexual desires.

And yet, I still see women converting to Islam. Why don't they just jump into a wood-chipper and get it over with?

DwnWthVwls 11-23-2014 09:21 AM

If I remember correctly from a docu: Didn't they avoid killing 1000s of people during the capture of Mecca or some major city? The people were allowed to live their and not convert, but the government or something was overthrown.

Lord Larehip 11-23-2014 09:54 AM

History is written by the victors and there is no way to verify it. Mohammad never existed to begin with so any histories centered around him are automatically false.

The Batlord 11-23-2014 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip (Post 1511849)
Spoiler for TL;DR:
According to the Quran, THAT is exactly what Allah wants. Non-believers are to be converted and if they do not convert, they must be tortured and killed.

Quran (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Quran (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them."

Note that the Quran is not referring to a military enemy but those that have committed the audacious crime of disbelief or non-belief. They are either to be killed or beaten into submission. Need more?

Quran (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

Quran (17:16) - "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction."

Quran (33:60-62) - "If the hypocrites, and those in whose hearts is a disease, and the alarmists in the city do not cease, We verily shall urge thee on against them, then they will be your neighbors in it but a little while. Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter."

There is true Islam--kill your neighbors. Don't like their lifestyle? Slaughter them. If you don't, Allah will punish in the Hereafter:

Quran (9:38-39) - "O ye who believe! what is the matter with you, that, when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of Allah, ye cling heavily to the earth? Do ye prefer the life of this world to the Hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the Hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place."

And those Muslims who refuse to take part in slaughtering and subjugating non-believers?

Quran (4:95) - "Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward,-"

According to Islam, pacifists are just lazy!!

The Quran and the Hadith are full of this garbage.

Question:
Does Islam permit a man to hit his wife?

Summary Answer:
Yes, but only if she doesn't do as he asks. The beating must cease if the woman complies with her husband's demands. Beating is also intended to be the last resort of coercing submission, behind verbal abuse and abandonment.

According her testimony in the Hadith, Muhammad, physically struck his favorite wife for leaving the house without his permission. It is not known how he treated his less-favored wives.


TheReligionofPeace - Islam: Can a Husband Beat His Wife?

And this is supposedly Allah actually speaking to Job:

Qur'an (38:44) - "And take in your hand a green branch and beat her with it, and do not break your oath..."

From the Hadith, which is a particularly barbaric document:

Bukhari (72:715) - A woman came to Muhammad and begged her to stop her husband from beating her. Her skin was bruised so badly that she it is described as being "greener" than the green veil she was wearing. Muhammad did not admonish her husband, but instead ordered her to return to him and submit to his sexual desires.

And yet, I still see women converting to Islam. Why don't they just jump into a wood-chipper and get it over with?


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Quran (9:5) - "So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them."

I thought nonbelievers were allowed to practice their own religion if they payed a tax, and only infidels at war with muslims were to be killed. But I guess not.

Again, why it is that religion should be free from public criticism is beyond me. Anyone with common sense ignores half of what their religion says, whether they realize it or not. And yet you can't even say this. If Islam is a religion of peace, then let it be criticized in public, and if it passes scrutiny then all well and good. But if it can't, then its nonsense and barbarism should be laid out for everyone to see, so that people can actually be informed about something that influences their lives and those of others.

Lord Larehip 11-23-2014 10:54 AM

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call into question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one long sin against mankind. ---W. K. Clifford

Chula Vista 11-23-2014 10:58 AM

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at the basis of those two things. In this world we can now begin a little to understand things, and a little to master them by the help of science, which has forced its way step by step against the Christian religion, against the churches, and against the opposition of all the old precepts. Science can help us to get over this craven fear in which mankind has lived for so many generations. Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead of the sort of place that the churches in all these centuries have made it.
-- Bertrand Russell

Black Francis 11-23-2014 11:05 AM

That's right, worship science it's way more practical.

John Wilkes Booth 11-23-2014 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls (Post 1511848)
Is that where it gets logical/morally philosophical, and less "faithy"/ridiculous?

no, that's where they get rid of all the dumb old tribal rules with a divine get out of jail free card which specifically emphasizes faith in christ.
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@JWB - I was just taking the opportunity to make a snide comment about religion. Nothing serious about that post.
and i was just taking the opportunity to make a **** joke.

Soulflower 11-24-2014 02:08 PM

Black people are in trouble.... sad what is going on with Cosby.

If they don't arrest that white cop in Ferguson....shakes my head. I am sick and tired of seeing innocent black male teens slain. Stop the racism and the violence!

The Batlord 11-24-2014 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Soulflower (Post 1512373)
Black people are in trouble

Cause it's been going so well the past few hundred years.

Soulflower 11-24-2014 04:21 PM

Whats sad is this racial epidemic (against young black males ) that has been going on for years is now coming to light but the government does not see it as a problem.

They will search for days to find a missing white girl but won't arrest a police officer who killed a innocent black teen.

I know this is nothing new but this epidemic needs to stop.

Trayvon Martin
Michael Brown

who's next?

Its almost like they are giving police officers permission to kills young black males

Sad.

I would think these two examples of what goes on every single day would bring light to a problem that needs to be addressed but it has not.

Black people are in trouble and need to talk to their boys because the police are targeting them.

Frownland 11-24-2014 04:27 PM

Well it's not on the government's part but many police stations are being proactive in the situation following Ferguson thinking "this could be us" and installing tie cameras for officers to wear. That's definitely a step in the right direction. Trayvon Martin was not killed by a police officer as well, so maybe epidemic is the wrong word. A serious issue? Yes, but epidemic implies that it's happening to millions.

Cuthbert 11-24-2014 04:30 PM

Correct me and point out my ignorance if I'm wrong.

A lad has a toy/replica gun and someone phones the police. He is asked to put his hands up and reaches for the gun.

What do people expect the coppers to do? There's been kids shooting in schools over there before.

A 12 year old should be bright enough to realise he's going to be shot dead by police if he goes waving an imitation gun about :confused:

USA + their gun laws + their attitude towards firearms = an accident waiting to happen. Forever.


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