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Well, actually History shows that Violence DOES work - that good people WILL look away & do nothing
A few examples:
1. The Spanish landed in Mexico, tortured, killed, raped & did what not forcing the indegenous to convert & they of course succeeded. Today, mexico is overwhelmingly christian. If a time-machine was invented, the descendents of those that were tortured might go back & participate in the torture of their own ancestors!
2. Millions were killed & tortured in the middle ages both by christians & muslims forcing people to convert - have they not succeeded? The offspring of those tortured are happy to belong to these religions today
3. America was founded by those fleeing from religious persecution - but does that mean that they stopped abusing others? of course not - catholics say that only catholics will go to heaven, everyone else get hell, well, most christians use the same line!
4. African-Americans - dragged away from their families, tied up like cattle, beaten, raped, the old & unfit thrown overboard, sold like cattle, treated as 2nd class citizens, discriminated - but the majority of them are? u guessed it! christians!
The bible clearly tolerates slavery as an institution, gives rules as to how to treat a slave - if u beat him & he gets up in the morning, then u are fine! What an enlightend God! And that's the one these people pray to!
Alex Haley - wrote Roots - his ancestor almost died trying to hang on to his name - yet Alex Haley won't change his last name to Kunte - he prefers to keep the slave-owner's name
5. Closer to present day - Nikkie Haley, governer of Massachusetts? - she is of indian descent - her parents are sikh, she grew up as a Sikh - as a child she was mocked & abused by christians for being a Sikh! Today, what is she? U guessed it! A christian!
Unforutunately Sikhism has Hindu Gene - tolerance for all faiths - not abusing or threatening people just becuase they changed religions & i guess it cost us.
Barack Obama - probably the most powerful man in the world - was hounded as being a muslim(it is crime, did u know that?)- kowtowed to fundies by insisting he is christian, having himself with his family photographed going to church, in front of the church etc.
This IS violence pure & simple - If the world's most powerful man in a free democracy can't or won't stand up to religious fundamentalism, how can anyone mock or berate illeterate ordinary muslims for not standing up to the Taliban?
You missed the hundreds of millions killed, tortured and impoverished by the Communists to make Atheists out of them.
you missed out,
the dalit being tortured, raped, killed slaved by Hindu's for 2000 yrs, to top the list untouchability still practiced by Hindu's
And the proof for this figure is where exactly?
To paraphrase a brilliant quote by Richard Dawkins: Everyone is an atheist with regard to gods that are not their own, some of us just take it one step further.
The most devout Christian sounds like an atheist when talking about Islam, and vice versa. When you look at it this way, everyone possesses the skepticism and critical thought necessary to deny ridiculous claims. Something in the human brain prevents us from directing honest criticism at our own beliefs.
Agree. I read somewhere that the historical view of the number of distinct religions throughout humanity has been about 63,000. This does not include the fact that if you ask any, for instance, Catholic about their beliefs no two are exactly the same - this is still counted as one religion.
Put in that perspective we are all Atheists for at least 62,999 of them. The religious just need only one more to go...
It never fails to amaze me how ludicrous religious people are. Is there god not all powerful? Why would a mere human be tasked to kill an apostate when this god has eternal torture in hell in store for the apostate? Compared to that death is easy!
And how arrogant are they that they claim to know the mind and desires of this god of theirs? That they are so special that they know god wants them to kill this person or people?
I think they subconsciously realize that their error riddled books are the work of men with Bronze Age moral values and they fear that it will be found out. The best outcome for them is to use those moral values to justify the murder of innocent people rather than confront the inanity of their belief without reason.
And people say religion is good?
But which religion? Are you lumping all the religions into one basket? Is mother Teresa ludicrous? Is John Paul the second ludicrous? Is Josemaria Escriva ludicrous?
"I think they subconsciously realize that their error riddled books are the work of men with Bronze Age moral values and they fear that it will be found out." So after reading St Luke´s Acts of the Apostle you came to a logical conclusion that is error riddled? The problem I see here is simplistic generalizations.
"That they are so special that they know god wants them to kill this person or people?" Lol!, who are you referring to here? St Peter? or St Paul? or Pope Benedict? or my Mom? Lol!
"The best outcome for them is to use those moral values to justify the murder of innocent people rather than confront the inanity of their belief without reason". Lol! Look who is talking, only religious people today see abortion as murder of innocent persons. Your enlighted 21st century men and women don´t see the removal of a baby in the womb as murder of an innocent.
@ emekaobioji,
No, they are worse than ridiculous, they are evil. It's bad enough when a common person abuses a child (they are the lowest of the low), but for these people to have some sick fantasy about a celestial being who has the power to stop all human suffering, but doesn't is bad enough. The supreme arrogance that they claim to know this thing exists and further know it's mind is all the damning proof you need to condemn these people in the most forthright terms.
But all this is irrelevant. I'm not commenting about these evil people, I'm commenting about the belief. The fact that they can do what they did/are doing proves my point that religion is evil because it allows anyone to justify anything.
As to your further comments, they are not a proper statement of argument. If I read them correctly you are saying that a) there are good religious people so religion is good. b) that there are no errors or contradictions in the bible and c) that there are moral beliefs you hold as fact and anyone who disagrees is therefore wrong and without morals. The conclusion is that all this together proves the veracity of your religion - wrong.
a) As shown above that these people are evil. Even if this wasn't the case it doesn't matter if everyone believes there is a god, - that doesn't make it right. At one point everyone believed the earth was flat - wrong. Even the Catholic church only recently admitted that Galileo was right and we live in a heliocentric solar system and not a geocentric one.
There are also many many good Atheists (in fact, crime statistics demonstrate that those without religion are for the most part more decent so does that resolve the issue in your mind - didn't think so)
b) There are numerous errors easily found. The gospels can't even agree on such things as Christ's birth and resurrection!?!? And the errors... oh the errors.... please just have a read of the bible.
c) If there are unalienable moral truths then what are they? Do you think genocide, rape, slavery, incest etc.. is all good? I hope so because the bible condones it all and in fact sometimes demands it!
As to abortion I too thin kit's wrong and I don't believe women would have one because they want to or like to. At the same time I don't think it's my right that I should know why a women feels she needs one. This could be intensely personal like an abusive husband, incest, rape... The best way to avoid it is offer education and support both pre and post delivery. But in the end it's a women's choice.
Even if i was to agree with every non-point you make (there are good religious people, there are no errors in the bible, there are unalienable moral truths), this still does not prove any god or gods exist.
Only morons deal in absolutes and one main problem with religion is that it allows anyone to justify whatever absolutes they interpret it to be.
As a young Muslim all the media coverage about the Muslims and Islam makes me feel bad, you know the feeling you get when a good friend of you who thinks slow is being made fun of. As some one already mentioned most of the readers happen to be middle class people in the western countries who besides having descent education happen to be also atheists so no wonder this discussion is so one-sided. The reason why the Muslim part of the world could be explained by many historical factors like the "domination of white man" or something else which is off the track. The real reason happens to be at the moment the bad and narrow sighted leaders, who really aren't well educated, excluding the religious education. These men, no women, are incapable of making good balanced decisions for many reasons e.g. education --> this causes devils circle -->bad decisions cause bad economy cause bad education cause fundamentalism and so on and by the way the order might alter. The point I'm trying to make is that people aren't bad they just happen to be led to wrong direction for various reasons.
When it comes to the article you really would be admiring Islam if you would be a Muslim -a real muslim not suicide bomber- just for a day inn this chaotic world Islam really gives a strong feeling of inside peace and you would have more colourful expectations about the here-after than nothing(ness). I should add to that, killing people or even faining them for their (reasonable) ideology is Not right, if you really believe into Allah leave the judging to him for Allah sake. Quite ridiculous to me and to many other Muslims too but hey we don't happen to be old and we don't posses a beard so...too bad. I think though that there will be better times for the Islam, for Muslims for the world. My generation will change something. We won't change Islam -indeed you can't if you believe- but what we will do is we will take a moderate way to practice Islam. Islam is about love, knowledge seeking, openness, honesty etc. unlike the impression these people without the ability to look beyond their beard might give you.
Peace. Love. Knowledge. Allah.
High school student who got here accidentally.
YOU can change islam. Especially you, you are young and you have like thinking friends. Start a movement to americanize islam. American ( and a few Japanese) buddhists americanized buddhism.
If modern muslims don't take back their religion from those who have highjacked it for evil purposes then it could face possible extinction. The response to a nuclear attack by an islamic terrorist will result of millions of muslim deaths.
YOU can change islam. Especially you, you are young and you have like thinking friends. Start a movement to americanize islam. American ( and a few Japanese) buddhists americanized buddhism.
If modern muslims don't take back their religion from those who have highjacked it for evil purposes then it could face possible extinction. The response to a nuclear attack by an islamic terrorist will result of millions of muslim deaths.
YOU can change islam. Especially you, you are young and you have like thinking friends. Start a movement to americanize islam. American ( and a few Japanese) buddhists americanized buddhism.
If modern muslims don't take back their religion from those who have highjacked it for evil purposes then it could face possible extinction. The response to a nuclear attack by an islamic terrorist will result of millions of muslim deaths.
YOU can change islam. Especially you, you are young and you have like thinking friends. Start a movement to americanize islam. American ( and a few Japanese) buddhists americanized buddhism.
If modern muslims don't take back their religion from those who have highjacked it for evil purposes then it could face possible extinction. The response to a nuclear attack by an islamic terrorist will result of millions of muslim deaths.
that's NOT how it works!
I understand there are islamist moderates. I understand that most islamists are moderates but that is not the way to judge.
For example let's consider the yellow candies. 99% of people eating yellow candies will not get cancer. Yet, among those eating yellow candy there are 100 times more people who get cancer than among red candy eaters. Then we call the yellow candy 'carcinogenic'!
So if 99% of islam believers do not blow themselves up in the name of religion that is not good enough!
If, by being muslim, you're 100 times more likely to blow yourself up with the aim of killing as many innocents as possible, then there is something WRONG WITH ISLAM!
Wrong. Your analogy is incomplete, and hence its conclusion false and in error.
In this case, the candies would not all come from the same manufacturer, but from different production facilities all around the world. 99% of these candies are produced from different parts of the world, but this particular 1% is produced in, let's say, the Middle East. This is also the 1% that's causing cancer in others.
The answer then, is not shutting down the whole thing, but shutting down production in the Middle-East, where the factory workers and supervisors are found to be delusional and psychologically deranged people who are intentionally poisoning the candies.
Now you have only the non-carcinogenic candies, because the candies themselves are not harmful; it is the factory workers in that particular region who have made it so.
Hi Lightbringer
Thanks for answering using my analogy.
Let me expand it a bit further.
As long as all of those candies are only labeled 'Made in Mecca' I have no way of telling the difference between them. When it's the life of my children on the line they DO NOT get the benefit of the doubt so I'll have to reject all of them.
If indeed you are correct and there are different factories and some of them make great non cancerous candies they need to be labeled different. For example 'Green Muslims - certified 0% suicidal maniacs'. This way I'll know only to import those specific candies into my country.
Branding is all about differentiation.
This has been done before. I mean Islam can be thought of a brand of religion while Christians have many different brands each with their own personality.
Those that do not condone Islam's worldwide suicidal homicidal personality should declare it more clearly than Economist posts!
Hilarious satirical article on why growing atheism in the Islamic world might be a good thing.
Social dysfunction is highly coorellated with religious belief. The hard Islamic fundamentalism of some countries will be a problem for many decades to come. The various atheists who have thee courage to question religion will be the trailblazers who lead to better social function for their societies.
A comment of mine observing that 'all the recent Chairmen of the Federal Reserve have been Jewish', is considered inciting hate (and gets deleted), while the Economist publishes a whole article criticizing Islam. What double standards! What one sided "freedom" of speech!
lol, thats the economist for you
Jews do represent a disproportionate amount of people in politics, finance, media and other professions.
I do just chalk that up to they just do things smarter.
But where that disproportion breaks down seems to be in the hard sciences and engineering, I find that odd, since the majority of science and engineering talent seems to be exclusively asian.
but it probably has more to do with culture, asians value those areas, where I think Jews value money, status more.
What a shallow observation. Any nation which spread in diaspora while keeps it's identity would have intellectual advantages. you may see that in Armenians and Palestinians. In Europe Jews could not hold land, and had the exclusive right to loan with interest rate, these are the roots of Jewish advantage in finance, medicine and science.
The original intent of my observation was to try to figure out who actually selects the Chairman of the Federal Reserve as I find it hard to believe that Obama would pick the same guy as Bush, or that a demographic representing 2% of the population would get selected 4 times in a row. Now that the comment has been deleted, I see what the Economist considers inappropriate talk.
This article about Islam is exponentially 'worst' than the neutral one liner I gave. It seems the Economist has a different set of rules when criticizing Muslims. It seems like the purpose of this article is to generate hatred towards Islam.
How is this not a hate speech in TE's eyes?
The 'advantage' is that Jews usually hire, promote, recommend their own ilk - so do other minorities as well.
What Jews do better and incessantly is promotion of their own interests and exceptionality.
Yea they deleted mine the other day because I called some guy an idiot for suggesting Israel should nuke Iran preemptively!
Clearly they have some general rule (inciting hatred) to qualify a post for deletion but how exactly is espousing the nuking of Iran preemptively not inciting hatred.
Further your above statement of fact is hard to understand as such. Sigh.
Very true, Jewish culture teaches financial discipline from a very early age just like the Chinese place mathematical prowess.
Too many people are quick to attribute their hard work and social pressure to conspiratorial nonsense.
MrColdheart, exactly right.
There might be slight selective bias in some fields, but for the vast majority of Jewish people I've met have been extremely competent and talented, most likely they have gotten to where they are because yes, they worked hard and were good at what they did.
Jewish culture like Asian culture just encourages hard work. The only conspiracy here is that Jews raise kids to be hardworking and make smart choices.
And thats the thing that always puzzled me about Western Culture, Schadenfreude (Jealous God) stuff. Instead of seeing what people do to be successful and trying to emulate it, Westerners get jealous and make up conspiracy theories (Same thing applies to people who work hard and become succefull the whole conspiracy theory is successful people gamed the system etc.)
very interesting. I am an ex-muslim apostate and atheist. I myself agree with the content of this article because i live in Pakistan and fear of beheading by a mob or authorities is a reality. But at the same time I agree that Western media like The Economist and Time has double standards. You can insult only Muslims here freely but whenever you raise your finger against a protected community your comments will be deleted. Also somebody would suggest that there are trillions of trillions of the rockets that are fired by Hamas per second so not a big deal if few hundred 'Muslim'children are killed in defence. Actually these people have no courage to label these children as 'potential' terrorists and justify 'pre-emptive killing'of these children openly but they seem to believe so otherwise one can't have such irrational logic in favour of killing a hapless baby anywhere in this universe.
Have you ever considered why Judaic dynasties may be overrepresented in the financial sector ? And have a reputation as Shylocks ? Partly because of the diaspora, but mostly because of Islamic and Christian laws that prevented Christians and Muslims being usurers. To generalise, throughout europe, only Jews could lend money and collect taxes, until about the eighteenth century. This is at the root of a lot of anti-semetism, because have you ever known anyone to like the tax man, or the loan shark ? Couple that with a distinctive appearance, and you have an easy target to distract your vassals, or in later years, to gain popular support. How many of the Jews slaughtered by the crusaders died to clear a debt ?
And I wouldn't be too hard on the Economist: any comment reported as hate speech will probably be automatically deleted.
Even if you right by taking this article as an attack on Islam, what good are you bringing when answering with your conspiracy theory about Jews dominance ? You are just spreading your own hatred instead of trying to look on your culture thru a critic aspect. Yes Jews have presence in Economics which is not proportional for their size in population, it has historical reasons, perhaps also political. What does it have in common with the problems mentioned in this article?
Even if you right by taking this article as an attack on Islam, what good are you bringing when answering with your conspiracy theory about Jews dominance ? You are just spreading your own hatred instead of trying to look on your culture thru a critic aspect. Yes Jews have presence in Economics which is not proportional for their size in population, it has historical reasons, perhaps also political. What does it have in common with the problems mentioned in this article?
All cultures have notions of spirits, few believe in one only allmighty god (jewish, christian and muslim). I wonder myself when or why this tyranic allmighty god rose to Abraham and demanded exclusive and blind devotion from its followers in exchange for salvation. Most asians believe in some philosophical system, there is no god, they don't make religious wars (maybe with the exception of the sikh). On the other side, our tyranic god, the Father of jews, christians and muslims, has spread religious wars all over.
Which wars waged by Sikh are you calling religious where they might have been the aggressor?
Jesus says love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, if someone slaps you on the right cheek turn the left, if someone wants your trousers, give him or her your jacket and shirt too, do not be afraid to lend to those who seek to borrow from you, forgive your brothers 490 times (i.e always forgive), do not judge, do not lie, do not cheat, love your wife as yourself etc etc. Now please in which other social grouping do we find such teachings. If you and I and everyone else in the world just observes these teachings, there would not be war in Syria, Israel, Gaza, Congo, There would not be credit crisis, there will not be rapings, crime, there would not have been 2nd world war, 1st world war, wars, there will not be any weapon factory, nuclear bombs, Iran etc etc. The Asian philosophical system, although it is good is nothing near the philosopy of Jesus, the jewish philosophy has imperfections (eye for eye, tooth for tooth, the law of revenge), muslims (believe by force). Only in christianism (I am not talking about the abuse the european christians made with it in history). Jesus never forced anyone to believe in him, was full of love, the brought a woman who has been cheating on her husband and he simply told them if you have not done anything bad in your life cast the first stone. The wars with the highest death rates were not religious wars.
Helm, thats a good question, but I think its a genetic trait exclusive to middle east, European areas.
If you think of concept of god as a projection of self, then the blind devotion to only one jealous god is a projection of the European, Middle eastern mindset.
Turn the other cheek? wow! Go to America, natives save the settlers from starvation, later, after getting stronger, kill, mass murder the natives almost to extinction! Mass murder, kill the natives in Australia & NZ.
Grab pook kids away from their families, tie them up like cattle, rape the women, throw the old & unfit overboard, sell the rest like cattle, discriminate, abuse
Colonize entire countries, exploit & loot their natural resources and people, kill, kill, kill, practice Apartheid!
Pray tell me, when exactly did u practice those glorious teachings?
God told Abraham to kill the other tribes and there are tons of other examples of God telling people to do morally bad things.
I may be an atheist but I have 12 years of theology under my belt from when I was a believer so I know better then to just parrot selective words that only agree with the point at hand.
Please, try reading the Bible with out a closed mind, you'll see that you too have a better moral compass then the God of the Bible.
I only mentioned the sikhs in relation to their conflicts with hindus, in recollection of the Amritsar incident in the 1980s. Don't see much religious conflicts in today's Asia (with the exception of asian muslims).
I only mentioned the sikhs in relation to their conflicts with hindus, in recollection of the Amritsar incident in the 1980s. Don't see much religious conflicts in today's Asia (with the exception of asian muslims).
"The wars with the highest death rates were not religious wars."
Only because they didn't have the technology.
"God told Abraham to kill the other tribes and there are tons of other examples of God telling people to do morally bad things." - Simplistic Generalization. Too risky. Now what would you say about the morality of Jesus Christ? Love your enemies do good to those who hate you? I doubt your 12 years of theology if at the very least you didn´t learn how to avoid simplistic generalizations. Each case has to be treated seperately. You are the one that reads the bible with a closed mind, if the conclusion you draw after studying all the books is that "you too have a better moral compass then the God of the Bible".
Lets set something straight, Religion/spiritual philosophy (whatever you want to call it) is not anti science, this is a myth and only something Atheist believe (complacency to learn due to intolerance of other ideas or possibilities).
For the vast majority of history the greatest thinkers/scientist have been men of faith. The Idea that there could be something (germs, atoms, celestial bodies, laws of physics) that could not be physically seen or proven immediately have been guided by the idea of something greater, or by faith. It was religious institutions that were in fact the perservers and collectors of much our knowledge for much of history.
Contrast this with Atheistic traditions of Confucianism and Buddhism, where the focus was on the here and now (the practical) and not the beyond, these philosophical traditions were one of the major reasons why Chinese/Asian thought did not advanced beyond a certain point, only briefly when Daoism took hold, was there a exploration, flourishing to the unseen, that discovery and exploration of the unknown was quickly squashed with the emergence of neo Confucianism.
The whole idea that Atheist are basing their view of religion on a extreme small segment (religious fundamentalist) is just as bad as religious zealots making the same outlandish claims against others.
Both are closed minded and proves the intellectual laziness on both sides.
"Lets set something straight, Religion/spiritual philosophy (whatever you want to call it) is not anti science, this is a myth and only something Atheist believe (complacency to learn due to intolerance of other ideas or possibilities)."
An atheist is simply one who does not believe in a deity (that's what the word actually means); nothing else. Any other belief attributed to an atheist would be a generalization, and therefore not credible.
The claim that 'religion is not anti-science' is another generalization, also not credible. Religion is an abstract idea, and therefore is not 'anti-' anything; it is the individual subscribers to the various religions who become 'anti-' other ideas. The clerics of his time confounded Benjamin Franklin for having invented the lightning rod, claiming he was defying the will of God; I take it you agree that they would not be among "the greatest thinkers and scientists who were men of faith."
Or would you?
Where religious zealotry is concerned, nothing surprises me.
CHRISTIANITY: "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets."
-Matthew 7:12
CONFUCIANISM: "Do not unto others what you would not have them do unto you".
-Analects 15:23
BUDDHISM: "Hurt not others in ways that you would find hurtful."
-Udanavarga 5:18
ISLAM: "No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother that which he loves for himself"
-The Forty-Two Traditions of An-Nawawi
The above came from "Pontifical Council For Interreligious Dialogue - Reflections By Cardinal Francis Arinze On The Day Of Prayer At Assisi, 24 January 2002"
I agree that some of "Both are closed minded and proves the intellectual laziness on both sides."
"Religion/spiritual philosophy (whatever you want to call it) is not anti science, this is a myth and only something Atheist believe "
See Hamakko above. The Intelligent Design movement has sought to raise Creationist belief to the level of a science, and enforce schools to teach it as as such. This is anti science as it seeks to replace the scientific method with one sect's creation myth.
"have been men of faith."
Until recently, it was socially unacceptable (if not fatal) not to be, and as this article points out, in some barbaric parts of the world, it still is.
Sorry, real finger trouble today
Once religious ideas enter the secular public square the "believer" should understand and accept that which will come forth in commentary will range from scepticism to ridicule and from sarcasm and hilarity, and is part of the course of the true freedom of the exchange of ideas in all advanced secular societies and has everything to do with respect, tolerance and an attempt at understanding.
Now, on the other hand, if your tax free church, mosque or temple would warmly welcome to your houses of worship a proud apostate who would be allowed to speak to the gathering concerning her preference for atheistic apostate lesbianism perhaps we could begin to truly speak on equal terms. However, this possibility would never ever arise in the cult like world of the freedom loving Muslim, but should it happen, it is certain that she would not be simply rebuked by sarcasm or hilarity but would be lucky to escape with her life. As it is today Muslims are practicing both intellectual dishonesty and spiritual hypocrisy. Now the terrorist Taliban groups on the other hand………….
Such is the irrational reaction of religious fanatics programmed and condition to primitive intolerant barbaric inerrant beliefs.
Mike Face
Dear people from all over the world.I'm a nonbeliever from a predominantly muslim country,Turkey.Here,they don't punish us in a cruel way like most Muslim states,but as you can imagine living in a Muslim country is hard for non-muslims.For this century,frankly speaking if you were born in a non-muslim country youre bloody lucky my friends.Just look to the map and see how fucked things are in Muslim countries.Where ever there is Islam,you see intolerance and widespread conflicts.Your daughters cant choose the life they want,cos there are crazy bearded man hungry for them outside.
People like you live in turkey and lots of bearded Salafists live in europe or us. That is not fair. Why not start an exchange.
Bearded people to afghanistan, Pakistan. People like you to us or Europe.
I'm a bearded Atheist Irishman. You have something against beards?
Don't you feel so frustrated when those religious people approached you and they are trying to brain wash you into believing in their retard religions? They make you feel like you are a retard and they think they know more than you about the after life. This is not the Middle East by the way, this is in America. They may not take extremist action like those in other part of the world, but still. Sometime I just felt like telling them to get the hell of out of my face.
Science will discover the truth about life being and the universe, just going take a bit of time. Just don't impose any religious text book filled with brainwashed crap on me.
I am not religious, but the Economist, Reddit communities are just as bad/intolerant as the closed minded religious community I grew up in:
"If you aren't an atheist, blah blah, christian blah blah, then you are a an idiot blah blah, bad person blah blah"
Notice the difference between Asian philosophies (Buddhism "many ways", Confucianism, etc..) and Western Philosophies (Atheism, Christianity, etc..)? Ya, Westerners are some of the most intolerant people in the world, doesn't matter what it is atheism or Christianity etc.. Westerners are just intolerant.
I find atheists on the whole more tolerant of religion than the other way around. As an atheist I never argue IRL with anyone talking about his religious beliefs for example. If it makes someone happier then I'm all for it. Where atheists generally draw the line is when religious groups actively try to influence education or politics.
All this conversation about whether God exists or not is besides the point. Punishing a thought crime such as atheism by death is barbaric and medieval whether the punished person was born to Muslim parents or not. Even giving verbal offense to sensibilities by publicly stating atheist views is not a crime punishable by death. If the Muslim faith cannot keep it's adherents through reason rather than threat of death, why is it a reasonable faith?
By the way, I agree religious texts can be widely interpreted and there are certainly reasonable Muslims who do not think ex-Muslim atheists deserve death.
Absolutely right, it doesn't matter what the thought is, punishing/threatening others peoples right to belief whether it be atheism or another philosophy is completely barbaric,
Atheist are just as bad as Religions, it was in fact under the auspices of atheistic communism that millions of people were persecuted and killed for their beliefs in Russia (Soviet Union), China and so many other countries.
Most atheists are also very annoying. And I say this as an atheist.
@ Hyun Smith - To say atheism is "just as bad as religions" is simply not true.
Millions of people might have been killed in the erstwhile Soviet Union and in China under the auspices of an atheistic government, but the killings were NOT done in the name of atheism. That is a crucial difference you have overlooked.
The motivating factor for those killings was not atheism (unlike in cases where genocide occurs with religious sanction).
Atheism is a logical standpoint which is the denial of (an) scientifically unproved deity/deities. Nothing less and nothing more.
I thought about converting to Islam for the polygamy. But while having four wives would be nice, I could not raise children who cannot think, reason, or question anything. I wonder why practicing Muslims move to the West. Their children lead such stressed lives: they cannot date; go anywhere on their own; girls cover 95-100% of their bodies; some are not allowed to use cell phones or listen to music. Why do the parents bring their kids to countries where the infidels are smoking, drinking, fornicating, blaspheming Allah? They should go back to Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, or wherever so the children would fit in and have happier lives.
girls cover 95-100% of their bodies
You are forgetting one of the main benefits of raising your daughters muslim, much less skin cancer. So don't be so quick to wright it off.
"write if off", not "wright it off"
Skin cancer? There's a greater risk of vitamin D deficiency.
Perhaps I'll go for the 4 hot Muslim girls. I'll expose my children to the Bible, Qu'oran, Buddhist texts, etc., and they can reach their own conclusions as I have.
BTW, can you tell me why Muslim parents move to the West and subject their children to so much stress?
"In the 1950s and 1960s secularism and tolerance prevailed in many majority-Muslim countries;"
I have to say that I would not have guessed that.
Whatever the faith, religion is the enemy of humanity, science and reason. Ecrasez l'infame.
"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty." - Thomas Jefferson
This seems to be the atheists' bulletin board.
Well the economist is not the kind of publication to appeal to the poor and uneducated, so it's to be expected that you'll find a large percentage of atheists here. Demographically it's fairly obvious.
Right, that just like how liberals/socialist/democrats are more likely to be poor and uneducated (thus why they can't figure out how to get a photo ID to vote), thus all liberals are poor and uneducated.
You sir are Brilliant! two thumbs up for stereotypes and failed logic 101
It's the bulletin board for well-educated and intelligent people, the movers and shakers of politics and business.
It's the bulletin board for well-educated and intelligent people, the movers and shakers of politics and business.
I'm sorry but it's pretty well established at this point that there is an inverse relationship between religion and education/prosperity. Also, the world is a lot bigger than the US.
The stats can be googled fairly easily.
Well, I have a M.S., have a good job (not rich), and I am a Catholic so I am confused by your comment.
Don't confuse statistics with absolutes. Just because statistically education (which promotes deductive reasoning vs inductive/intuitive reasoning) reduces religiosity does not mean at all that EVERY educated individual is therefore not religious.
Your M.S. must not have required statistics, which is a pity.
However, it is what you said... not for poor and uneducated so, a large percentage(probability)...I am trying to read "Fides et Ratio" we should both and then discuss. God Bless!
I am one of those ex-Muslims, but I have never been able to come out and declare my decision to leave the religion. I would be disowned by family and friends, and I would possibly be a target for extremists who would feel justified to not only vilify me, but also possibly do bodily harm. I commend those who have the courage, and I hope I can join them one day. At the present, I am keeping it to myself.
oh my dear,im also from a muslim country but at least i can come up to my friends and relatives.which country you reside?this is why im telling people,not being born in this sharia-torn states is a big bless.islam is radical,medieval,retrogressive.period
oh my dear,im also from a muslim country but at least i can come up to my friends and relatives.which country you reside?this is why im telling people,not being born in this sharia-torn states is a big bless.islam is radical,medieval,retrogressive.period
Isn't that precisely how Christianity behaved before the 1789 French
Revolution finally removed the hatchet from its bloodstained hands?
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And then perpetrated the Terror? Maybe not in the name in religion, but it still wasn't morally justified.
If Robespierre & Co really wanted terror they would have whipped France's twin parasites - its Aristocracy and Religion, onto the
fields of agriculture and forced them into actually doing a day's
work... That's terror - 100 times worse then the guilotine!!!
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Do you have a dryer? That uses probably a 30 amp circuit. Replace breaker with 30amp gfci and build yourself a 220v heatstick 4500-5000 watts with a replacment dryer cord. that is exactly what i did.
I have been using a Butterball Turkey Fryer, which uses a 1650 watt direct immersion element. Getting to a boil with a full pot of 6 gallons of water was marginal at best, as you near boiling, the heat loss from evaporation and radiation through the uninsulated tub was substantial. I decided that the sleek stainless steel look of the turkey fryer had to take a back seat to functionality. I had a big roll of Mylar faced foam insulation leftover from building my house. I wrapped the fryer and lid with this, and with the lid closed, I could reach a boil with relatively little heat loss, but it still took what seemed like forever.
Next step was to insulate the cavity between the tub and the housing. Since the heating element and all electrical wiring were detachable as a unit for cleaning, I could just stuff fiberglass into the space inside the cavity. Back of the envelope calculations for boiling times were reasonable, about an hour to Mash Temp, and another hour to boil. Once boiling, it would boil over if the lid was completely closed, and peter out if fully opened, so I left my stirring spoon across the top to keep the lid open an inch or so, which allows a gentle rolling boil. The basket also come in handy to keep the grain bag off the heating element.
I did an all-grain Porter with the setup, it just doesn't quite have the muscle to heat the Strike water as rapidly as I would have liked, but I managed to make some pretty good beer, despite its limitations. I have also done a couple of extract/partial mash brews with it.


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ST. PETERSBURG — Gov. Rick Scott's Florida Blue Ribbon Task Force on State Higher Education Reform is in its "brainstorming" stage.
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Posted: 02/01/2015 - Port St. Joe Police have arrested a man for robbing a Chevron store Sunday.
Posted: 02/01/2015 - Port St. Joe Police have arrested a man for robbing a Chevron store Sunday.
Updated: 02/01/2015 - Four suspects are in custody and are being questioned in regards to the robbery at the Tom Thumb Sunday morning.
Updated: 01/31/2015 - Teachers from all over the state became students at the 30th annual Language Arts Classic Conference at Gulf Coast State College.
Updated: 01/31/2015 - A local family's hard work and dedication has earned them a brand new home.
Updated: 01/31/2015 - Lynn Haven Police Officials investigate a traffic crash on Highway 390 that sent one person to the hospital.
Updated: 01/31/2015 - The Pilot Club held their 5th annual Pancake Festival Saturday. More than 300 people came out to the Applebee's on 23rd street to chow down on some breakfast
Updated: 02/01/2015 - On Saturday morning Boy Scouts went door to door in Bay County collecting bags of food.
Updated: 01/31/2015 - One woman is dead, and a man is charged with DUI manslaughter after an accident Friday night in Walton County.
Updated: 01/31/2015 - The Chipley Police Department is requesting assistance in identifying a suspect in a Robbery that occurred at the Chipley Tom Thumb, early Saturday.
Posted: 01/30/2015 - Some people enjoy boating on Deer Point Lake, for others it's all about fishing. Either way, it's about to get better as the lake fills back up.
Posted: 01/30/2015 - Business owners expect many workers to call in sick after the biggest sporting event of the year.
Updated: 01/30/2015 - A DeFuniak Springs woman is behind bars after an incident that took place New Year's Day.
Posted: 01/30/2015 - Many parents like to choose top schools for their child to attend, which is why Open Enrollment exists.
Posted: 01/30/2015 - Monday, Walton County Sergeant William Curtis and Deputy Sheriff Ryan Hooks responded to a call that an elderly man had collapsed at the gym at the Tops'l Beach and Racquet Resort.
Posted: 01/30/2015 - Governor didn't include Jackson County on list of school districts to receive state funding.
Updated: 01/31/2015 - Chipley Police have arrested the man who hit 18-year old Thomas Richardson, and then fled the scene.
Posted: 01/30/2015 - Cheering and jeering over the Super Bowl this weekend won't do any harm, right? Well, that all depends.
Updated: 01/30/2015 - Paris Janos got a sneak peek at a new art gallery that revolves around human nature.
Updated: 01/30/2015 - We drove all the way to Port St. Joe to award this week's Golden Apple winner! Congratulations Scott Lamberson.
Updated: 01/30/2015 - In NewsChannel 7's first "Faces and Places of the Panhandle" segment, we take you to Deer Point Lake, where one man, and his neighbors, have a song in their hearts.
Posted: 01/29/2015 - The last 10 days of January every year, the Homeless and Hunger Coalition of Northwest Florida conducts its point-in-time count.
Updated: 01/29/2015 - Arnold High School's Key Club held its second annual coat drive Thursday.
Posted: 01/29/2015 - There are some takeaways from last year's storm that state and local leaders have in mind should we find ourselves in a dicey situation like that again.
Updated: 01/29/2015 - After spending years in the planning stage, the St. Andrew Bay Land Company is finally breaking ground at the site of the old airport.
Posted: 01/29/2015 - New research says you may be driving a car that is most likely to kill you.


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Greetings time-minding Fold!
I know you're thinking to yourself, but bman, how aren't they're watches just swirling round and round? I've seen it in movies all my life.
I agree that it's beyond our comprehension. What movies does this whacky device get used? (this one is harder than the light tunnel)
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that's why I wear a digital watch
nowadays it'd be more like
they pull out their cell phone and the little date and time at the corner would be changing rapidly
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it wont let me play the game or download the stupid game
Can not play Erie, no helb found. Desura uninstall and bye
Any plans for a Linux version ?
Good game, always had a soft spot for collectables but this adds an extra element of "run your Object off" to boot. It also has it's slower paced gameplay that is very "Erie". I havn't experienced any glitches so far *fingers crossed* and it installed like a champ(win7 64)so if your having issues keep at it.
Ich habe angst vor dem Katzen geräusch D:
It would be nice to be able to change the resolution for this game, so i could at least get some 60~ fps-ish framerate :( . But the game is too phenomenal, it lags. Nice motion blur and cats
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My mom made this wonderful frozen cheese cake recipe when we were kids. I want to make this recipe, but it's made with raw eggs. These days, we're told not to use raw eggs, so I'm a little concerned. What do you think? (My husband would flip since he won't even eat raw cookie dough.) But anyway, this is a yummy recipe and great in this hot weather. Is there any alternative to use?


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