Fort Hood Shooting

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Originally Posted by Gohron

I don't think this should be a platform to ban Muslims from the military or other government jobs but it's a logical connection (related to the military). Personally I've never met a Muslim like this in person and there's a good chance I never will, just like I've never met a Christian who would blow up an abortion clinic but that doesn't affect my distaste for either of the religions and how they have impacted the world in their times.

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1) Reading the Koran /= Studying Islam in an academic or religious setting. All religions except scientology are based on ancient and arguably obsolete texts, and to understand the religion, you have to understand how it's interpreted by different people.

2) The rise of fundamentalism has very little to with the particular religion itself. It's about globalization of culture polarizing people to a sometimes extreme (or even idealized/hypothetical) set of values as a reaction to the changing world. The Arab world has changed a lot more in the last 60 years than it had in several hundred prior, at least as far as the average man is concerned, and some people are scared by this.

So it's not that they look at the religion and come to this conclusion, it's that they're craving something "ancient" and "traditional" and they use religious texts to fill that role and interpret them in a way convenient to their anxieties.

Case in point, it's reproducable in other religions. Both Christianity and Judaism have seen an increasing number of fundamentalists in America, and that's without the foreign element introduced. Granted they haven't been largely violent, but believe me if the changes in this country were as dramatic as the ones in the middle east, they would.

dogs and cats living together

mass hysteria

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Originally Posted by Anal Kaboom

He seems too smart to be Christian.

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whadda jerk!

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Originally Posted by Tracer

The Noah's Ark thread

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One of my favourite posts is in that thread! it's my post

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Originally Posted by Tracer

Try to stay on topic please.

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No you.

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

who to blame?

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Your mother.

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Originally Posted by K3V

Not sure if you mis-typed, but atheists have have no faith in any superstitious theory..

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Not true. To assume, based on existing scientific evidence, that there is an architect of some sort behind existence is no more superstitious than science's explanation of dark matter or the theory of irreducible complexity. Most science-based arguments for atheism confuse correlation with causation.

I meant to say "supernatural."

So believing that all religion is bullshit is a religion, then?

In the end it comes down to how people use their religion, Missionaries that spread the word of god and feed and shelter people are good, catholics who murder someone who goes against their religion are bad.

If I knew anything about the actual Muslim religion I would put out a point they do to improve the world but I honestly don't.

My religion is Agnosticism "There is a god and I don't think he really micro manages the earth like it's a game of Civ 4"

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

I didn't refer to any God. I said Atheism is a religion.

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You refer to some god a couple of times in your previous posts. I was just wondering which god it is you go by.

Scientifically, the burden of proof is upon those making claims. If the Universe can theoretically exist without a god just as well as with, then one must find proof for the presence, not the absence.

Disbelieving until proof is provided isn't unscientific. Cheebs is being idealistic in his approach. Perhaps he should just get that HDTV and shut up. I don't know.