Many Liberals Defend Islam the Way Conservatives Defend Guns

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43. I don't know and I don't care

We are on a thread discussing religion, and its exemption from criticism.

The only, simple point I am making is that religions can motivate people to do harm (as Paris demonstrates) and that religions have been shielded from criticism and mockery for far too long.

The religious Right has erected wall of deference around Christianity and progressives have confused caring for immigrants from muslim-majority countries with deference to Islam.

Now, if you want to enlarge the topic to other things, like the fact humans can commit violence for other ideologies or prejudices, I'm OK. Thinking about it, I see the guy in the photo killed blacks because he's a racist. And? Racism is the maladapted expression of primeval human fears. He needs psychiatric treatment, as radical believers do. But since it's not feasible to treat all the radical believers, it's probably best to bet on education to bust religions.