(in response to this statement regarding the terrorist attacks in France: "This is a cautionary tale of the dangers of radical religion, whether it be Islam or Christianity. Fundamentalism causes people to end up dead, because fundamentalism fosters hatred.")
And lets not forget atheism and Darwinism.
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Nope, darwinism is not an ideoloy and atheism is not a religion.
ISIS follows the most extreme form of Islamic fundamentalism, Wahhabism , which has as one of its tenets - follow our brand or die. Pretty much what Saud did to create Saudi Arabia. ISIS, I suspect, will really have its eye on capturing Medina and Mecca.
Atheism is not a religion, and Darwinism is a scientific theory.
Also, atheists don't really tend to be authoritarians.
Hitler's Luftwaffe bombs/V-1s/V-2s; 'Gott Mit Uns', and all that jazz.
The mainly American-funded Christian IRA. 30 years of them we in the UK had to endure.
7/7. We're still here.
Timothy McVeigh. Eric Robert Rudolph.
9/11. USA still there.
Muslims have existed in the US since the mid-19th Century. In my locale, Hull, Islame ist activity in our immigrant population: Zero .
All those militias & loony fundies with guns allowed to exist in the US. Guns banned in the UK, post-Dunblane in 1996. Anti-discrimination laws & Section 5 of the Public Order Act = Thoughtcrime for fundie Christains in the UK, ergo no WBC & their ilk allowed here.
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NEXT!
Yeah...
Assuming that all of them were atheists, they didn't do what they did because of atheism.
I'm starting to think they don't know what radical means, and they just bandy it out because they think it's a trump card.
e.g. "You're a moron who ignores basic fact in favor of a 2,000 year-old POS that hasn't been right once." "Oh yeah? Well, you're a radical! HA!"
In the words of one of the most prominent French philosophers:
Atheism is not a religion, it is an absence thereof. Is vacuum a gas?
@mister_pine
Not to Godwin things, but it certainly explains the fundies Bolshevism-hating - and being right -wing - and their inability to condemn a certain Austrian (who thought he had the right to have ideas above his station) as an inferior subhuman.
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Like him, I bet you fundies would love to have the women who had abortions subject to long jail sentences, and the doctors who performed said abortions executed, eh...?!
...however, Hitler's policy on certain abortions that didn't conform to his 'Lebensborn' policy. Ergo, a certain Alaskan quitter and her son Trig. Also, the little matter of Hosea 13:16; 'Gott Mit Uns', and all that jazz...!
Enjoy your multi-dimensional paradox, The Last Fart.
How many of the French terrorists were atheists? How about the 9/11 bombers - were they atheists? Or Eric Rudolph or Anders Breivik? The people you have to be afraid of are not people who don't believe in God; they're people who believe in God and think He's assigned them a special duty to kill people they don't like.
There's no nut like a religious nut.
Yep, it's required reading at ISIS headquarters, Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species. I here that that the ISIS guys in Paris shouted out passages as they killed people.
Wait, they didn't? The Last Trump is a fucking idiot? Imagine that...
""fundamentalism fosters hatred.")
And lets not forget atheism and Darwinism. ""
OMG did this person miss the irony of that. God comically missing the point much.
"In the words of one of the most prominent French philosophers:
Overly simplistic. Any good person can be driven to commit evil acts if they are convinced it is in the name of good. Philosophies and politics are two such examples.
The more rabid the person is in following their ideology, even if it is atheism, the more likely they will be driven to such acts.
Atheists aren't special snowflakes - we're all the same fallible human beings fighting over things that don't matter (and some things that do matter)
@Indicible
One could also interpret that as a "Well then what's your excuse?" scenario, though.
There are some atheists whose actions have been virtually no different from that of religious fundamentalists, just with "atheist" slapped in place of the supported religion. I kinda look at it this way.
"Christian fundies hate every religion that isn't theirs. If an atheist fundie just adds one more to that list, how does that make them any better?"
That being said, I will say that the majority of atheists are actually reasonable people with a sense of perspective who don't try to lord it over other people. And I will fight anyone who tries to bash atheists for simply being atheists. I just get tired of people with no sense of perspective making the exact same mistakes that they say everyone else is making.
Confused?
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