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Bluenorthwest

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7. How do you integrate the fact that ten Islamic countries execute LGBT as a matter of course

Reply to MH1 (Original post)

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 09:39 AM

Jun 2016

in public and while holding a Koran that they say is the reason they kill them? Is that just happenstance in your theory? Don't you think that the religion does matter if that religion is widely used as excuse for doing terrible things in an organized fashion? Stoning gay people to death, chopping off heads? Those who do those things own their actions. Why do you claim their actions must not be mentioned?

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Would it be helpful to call radical, violent anti-homosexuality what it is, [View all] MH1 Jun 2016 OP

Religion is the foundation from which homophobia grows. cleanhippie Jun 2016 #1

Why? to break what I perceive as a vicious cycle MH1 Jun 2016 #5

What about the vicious cycle that leaves all of those dead bodies in Orlando? Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #13

Notice I stated religion, not Islam. cleanhippie Jun 2016 #14

Thank you. I think we agree on that point, MH1 Jun 2016 #18

(McVeigh) "He wasn't described as a "radical Christian terrorist"" BumRushDaShow Jun 2016 #2

McVeigh and Roof are bad examples - neither's motivation was primarily religious. Donald Ian Rankin Jun 2016 #3

Why is Roof a "bad example" BumRushDaShow Jun 2016 #6

What has being in a Church got to do with it? Donald Ian Rankin Jun 2016 #8

You just torpedoed your own argument BumRushDaShow Jun 2016 #11

Because he probably figured a church is softer target than a store. Ace Rothstein Jun 2016 #20

What? BumRushDaShow Jun 2016 #21

I see a slight shift malaise Jun 2016 #9

Yes BumRushDaShow Jun 2016 #12

No, I think it would be unhelpful to obfuscate the fact that this was religiously motivated. Donald Ian Rankin Jun 2016 #4

Why not "radical religious terrorist"? MH1 Jun 2016 #10

How do you integrate the fact that ten Islamic countries execute LGBT as a matter of course Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #7

Several points. MH1 Jun 2016 #16

Uganda has discussed but does not execute. They are nearly as bad anyway and that's your faith. Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #23

Actually, I - DID - explain EXACTLY why I think the religion shouldn't be mentioned. MH1 Jun 2016 #27

McVeigh wasn't motivated by religion Matrosov Jun 2016 #15

Beliefs create motivation, plain and simple, and the source of such beliefs needs to be... Humanist_Activist Jun 2016 #17

I absolutely agree with your post. But - MH1 Jun 2016 #24

I don't know how I feel about your argument justiceischeap Jun 2016 #19

Thank you for the thoughtful response. MH1 Jun 2016 #22

Sorry, but no way to sugar coat it... JCMach1 Jun 2016 #25

Religion provides the justification. HassleCat Jun 2016 #26