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Tinkering around the edges. Why don't they clamp down on religion?
by logingone 11y ago
Tinkering around the edges. Why don't they clamp down on religion?
- teekert 11y agoWhy don't they clamp down on freedom? Oh wait...
- logingone 11y agoFreedom? Religious people have been trained like animals from youth. There's no choice there. That's not freedom.
- DamnYuppie 11y agoQuestion then becomes which one?
- balabaster 11y agoAll of them...
- fukusa 11y agoThat won't help one bit. You make the assumption that extremism originates from religion while it can originate from any kind of ideology. Religion is not the source of violent extremism, just the most convenient justification. Not to mention banning another religion (a very extremist thing to do by the way) is completely impractical and will only increase the division between religious and non-religious people which will only fuel the fire.
- MichaelGG 11y agoYou're right, but in practice, what other ideologies are behind attacks? Perhaps a few from "eco terrorists", but otherwise? Targeting religion is not quite fair, to be sure. It's the general war on rationality that is causing so much damage.
- zeveb 11y ago> You're right, but in practice, what other ideologies are behind attacks? Remember the anarchists of the late 19th century? The Bolsheviks in Russia? The long Cold War? That was primarily fueled by atheistic progressivism, and killed more people than all the religious wars in history put together.
- fukusa 11y agoIt just happens to be so that the people from the countries we have been interfering with for the last decades are mostly Muslim. Before that it was relatively peaceful and extremism was nearly non-existent. The current anti-Western extremism is reactionary.
- mason240 11y ago>Religion is not the source of violent extremism The violent extremists disagree with you. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the organizer of the Paris attack, said his goal was to kill as many non-believers as possible for Allah.
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- bdcravens 11y agoMeaning what? This would surely fuel extremism, not prevent. The goal here isn't to stop what people think, but what they can do.
- logingone 11y agoThe goal here isn't to stop what people think, but what they can do. Extremists are not a problem, as long as none of them slip through our monitoring and control of them? Of course the goal is to stop what people think - or would you like to make the same claim regarding racism?
- bdcravens 11y agoI would make the same claim regarding racism. Racism isn't the problem, discrimination is. Thought police states are how extremists are born.