by Ben Huh » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:20 pm
Everyone has fundies? Wow, thanks for the insight. Why is the go to argument used to semi-defend Islam this one? The one that mentions everyone else has fundies? No shit. Why do people so fervently on some level defend certain sects of Islam, but do not show that same kind of treatment towards other religious groups. Why is the "everyone has fundies" argument never presented when a Catholic priest sodomizes a child? Everyone instantly points the finger at the church and its consistent cover-ups of such practices. They also disallow anyone to use the "bad apples" argument, thus generalizing the entirety of Catholicism and its practitioners with some genuine pedophiles. You don't have to hold a rifle and be a member of a terrorist organization to be a fundamentalist Muslim, and as a religion Islam is becoming more and more conservative rather than progressive as i's younger generations are bigger fundies than their older counterparts....and the flaw I was highlighting was not that members of ISIS are poor and illiterate, it was that this is driven by religion, amongst other things, and it is high time we stop walking on egg shells to say that and make that connection. I do not care if non-violent Muslims get offended, as their religion is being used to justify horrible violence in the name of a God that does not exist and for a man that raped young boys and they, meaning all Muslims, believe flew to our Moon on a winged horse. Anyone who believes a man rode up to the moon on the back of a horse would be rightfully laughed off unless they throw a religious context behind it. Do that and you've already staked your claim to remaining free from any real form of criticism.
..."if the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of a divine reward, then brother, that person is a piece of shit."