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You see no irony in us being asked to mourn the destruction of a religious shrine for a person that himself participated in the deliberate destruction of multip
by growlist 7y ago
You see no irony in us being asked to mourn the destruction of a religious shrine for a person that himself participated in the deliberate destruction of multiple shrines purely on the basis of differing religion. Okay then!
- _bxg1 7y agoI'm saying the people who went to that shrine weren't necessarily endorsing one thing that happened a thousand years ago. Lots of people revere Moses without endorsing slaughter and rape. The shrine served a spiritual function for a group of people; that gives it meaning. Unless you can provide evidence that those who visited it spent their time advocating violence, its meaning in their lives, and therefore its value, isn't diminished.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar, and certainly not religious flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html