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no it isn't! it's fucked up that so many hicks are bigoted, and we should defend victims of fucked up attitudes like that (for a bunch of reasons). but that doesn't mean islam gets a pass. it's awful and many of the people who buy into it are awful. fox news picking on it doesn't excuse it from being terrible like most religions!
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no it isn't! it's fucked up that so many hicks are bigoted, and we should defend victims of fucked up attitudes like that (for a bunch of reasons). but that doesn't mean islam gets a pass. it's awful and many of the people who buy into it are awful. fox news picking on it doesn't excuse it from being terrible like most religions!
oh, you're serious? i thought you were making a joke.
Honestly, i don't have the most hateful attitude for religion, to me, it's just a tool, I'm more angry about the people who misuse it than after the tool itself. I don't think Islam needs a free pass or anything, though. Not sure where you got that from.
no it isn't! it's fucked up that so many hicks are bigoted, and we should defend victims of fucked up attitudes like that (for a bunch of reasons). but that doesn't mean islam gets a pass. it's awful and many of the people who buy into it are awful. fox news picking on it doesn't excuse it from being terrible like most religions!
I have more respect for the hardcore asshole forum atheists who unhesitantly lump Islam in with the theism they attack than I do for the namby-pamby liberals who will bitch until the sun goes supernova about Scientology or Catholicism but suddenly become compliant and accommodating where Islam is concerned.
That said.
It's not going away so we should develop coherent ways of dealing with it that doesn't get our people blown up by illiterate mobs of zealots.
no it isn't! it's fucked up that so many hicks are bigoted, and we should defend victims of fucked up attitudes like that (for a bunch of reasons). but that doesn't mean islam gets a pass. it's awful and many of the people who buy into it are awful. fox news picking on it doesn't excuse it from being terrible like most religions!
oh, you're serious? i thought you were making a joke.
Honestly, i don't have the most hateful attitude for religion, to me, it's just a tool, I'm more angry about the people who misuse it than after the tool itself. I don't think Islam needs a free pass or anything, though. Not sure where you got that from.
i was initially kidding. but from your response it seemed like you might be one of those liberals who's 'adopted' islam as a reaction to seeing it get shit on by racists in the tea party or whatever. since you're not, though, nevermind!
i'm not! i don't really hate religion fervently. i think i have the same fairly tepid, mostly apathetic regard for religion that's possessed by most casual atheists. i just personally get annoyed when islam is excluded from the list of 'those big dumb religions which are sort of annoying' because like, people want to look tolerant and accommodating even though they hate on christianity. it feels very much like a 'watch me score liberal brownie points by standing up against the racist buttholes' sort of thing.
Islam isn't an organization like Catholicism and Scientology. It is more like a broad umbrella term like the term Christian.
This is true, but Islamic countries (with the notable exception of Turkey) tend to be authoritarian, puritannical, and treat women like dog shit.
isn't the authoritarian, puritanical streak a recent-ish development in some of the islamic countries, though? i seem to recal Some of them, like Afghanistan and Iran as being pretty okay in the 80s, i think?
i'm not! i don't really hate religion fervently. i think i have the same fairly tepid, mostly apathetic regard for religion that's possessed by most casual atheists. i just personally get annoyed when islam is excluded from the list of 'those big dumb religions which are sort of annoying' because like, people want to look tolerant and accommodating even though they hate on christianity. it feels very much like a 'watch me score liberal brownie points by standing up against the racist buttholes' sort of thing.
I feel like you're perceiving an argument which doesn't exist.
I mean, to some extent, people don't rag on Islam because of the very real danger its fucking crazy adherents will actively try and murder you. It's just, the solution to this problem, is to try and get the not-completely-fucking-crazy group to exclude those fuckers and cut their support network. Which precludes constantly telling them their religion is wrong.
And at the same time, we have the very real issue that most people who've got a hard-hate on for Islam certainly don't look at atheists or non-christians any more favorably, and would be more then happy to have us removed from the public sphere of things which exist by means they don't really want to think about.
the argument definitely exists- i've witnessed it explicated multiple times. but i concede that i misread the situation here in chat and that's not what 21st was doing.
that said, make me a list of racist evangelical christians and i will poop on them all in front of you. for a modest fee.
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no it isn't! it's fucked up that so many hicks are bigoted, and we should defend victims of fucked up attitudes like that (for a bunch of reasons). but that doesn't mean islam gets a pass. it's awful and many of the people who buy into it are awful. fox news picking on it doesn't excuse it from being terrible like most religions!
oh, you're serious? i thought you were making a joke.
Honestly, i don't have the most hateful attitude for religion, to me, it's just a tool, I'm more angry about the people who misuse it than after the tool itself. I don't think Islam needs a free pass or anything, though. Not sure where you got that from.
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I have more respect for the hardcore asshole forum atheists who unhesitantly lump Islam in with the theism they attack than I do for the namby-pamby liberals who will bitch until the sun goes supernova about Scientology or Catholicism but suddenly become compliant and accommodating where Islam is concerned.
That said.
It's not going away so we should develop coherent ways of dealing with it that doesn't get our people blown up by illiterate mobs of zealots.
i was initially kidding. but from your response it seemed like you might be one of those liberals who's 'adopted' islam as a reaction to seeing it get shit on by racists in the tea party or whatever. since you're not, though, nevermind!
All things considered, there's worse subreddits to subscribe to. i can forgive him if it's his only one.
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i'm not! i don't really hate religion fervently. i think i have the same fairly tepid, mostly apathetic regard for religion that's possessed by most casual atheists. i just personally get annoyed when islam is excluded from the list of 'those big dumb religions which are sort of annoying' because like, people want to look tolerant and accommodating even though they hate on christianity. it feels very much like a 'watch me score liberal brownie points by standing up against the racist buttholes' sort of thing.
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beliefs are silly!
Even the supposedly "moderate" islamic countries like Indonesia are hellholes of anti-gay repression so the religion can suck all my dicks.
isn't the authoritarian, puritanical streak a recent-ish development in some of the islamic countries, though? i seem to recal Some of them, like Afghanistan and Iran as being pretty okay in the 80s, i think?
I might be wrong, though.
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the argument definitely exists- i've witnessed it explicated multiple times. but i concede that i misread the situation here in chat and that's not what 21st was doing.
that said, make me a list of racist evangelical christians and i will poop on them all in front of you. for a modest fee.