Quote from: eeeeek on June 05, 2015, 08:34:34 PM

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Quote from: eeeeek on June 05, 2015, 03:10:31 PM

I don't hate Islam per se .... In my book it's exactly the same as any other religion. They annoy me all equally. Believing the world was created for you speaks volumes of the ignorance and arrogance of the people who buy into those doctrines. That's what I hate .... the stupidity of it all.

This.
I admire and envy people like you that can sum up so well Tongue

Except they are not all the same. Look at the following.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquw

This is the singer, Sinead O'Conner, ripping up a picture of the Catholic Pope as a protest against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in 1992.

We could say it was roughly similar to cartooning Mohammed.

People were outraged at her doing this.

But you know what? Nobody came after her with AK47s or tried to cut her head off.

So, much as I would like to agree "it's exactly the same as any other religion," well, no it isn't.

You are confusing the followers with the religion ... the religion does not commit violence, it's followers do. Religions are just memes/ideas ... incredibly ignorant ones .. That's where they are equals Wink

I think this is an error on your part - although others have mentioned this. If what you say is true, then a verdict of death by a jury, and the subsequent court order for a person to hang, are not actions by the court, or the state, or the country. They are just words on dead paper.

Only the people that carry out the orders are committing violence.

From another point of view, you are likely wrong. Christians have told me that Christianity is not words in a book, but something that one must live - they say it resides within them. This is the way they separate their faith from human institutions such as churches, dogma, and so forth. They are very sincere about this (I am an atheist, just so you know). They separate their religion, and their personal practice of it, from the institutions.

But to support the view you express requires the exact opposite, and I don't think that can be possible.