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Atheists & Agnostics

guillaumeb

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11. Thank you

Reply to EvolveOrConvolve (Reply #10)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 09:34 PM

Jan 2015

Interesting how people will blame or condemn a particular philosophy for the actions of those who claim to believe in that philosophy. I would not blame all Americans for America's crimes in the world, nor would I blame all Muslims for the actions of a few claiming to be Muslim. People will use what they feel they must to justify their actions. Millions have been slaughtered in the name of religion, millions have been slaughtered in the name of nationalism. How do we get past the violence and intolerance?

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If Islam (or any religion, for that matter) were truly a "religion of peace"... [View all] trotsky Jan 2015 OP

There are Buddhist monks that openly advocate violence to further their cause... truebrit71 Jan 2015 #1

Exactly skepticscott Jan 2015 #2

Interesting take guillaumeb Jan 2015 #3

Ah, so I'm sure you can cite us numerous examples skepticscott Jan 2015 #5

Nixon's back guillaumeb Jan 2015 #6

None of which is remotely relevant skepticscott Jan 2015 #7

There is no "Amish Mafia". Curmudgeoness Jan 2015 #8

Oh but there is the TV show Heddi Jan 2015 #9

Seems our friend decided to weigh anchor skepticscott Feb 2015 #21

Lost at sea, perhaps. mr blur Feb 2015 #22

Of course not skepticscott Jan 2015 #18

Counting Truman as a christian terrorist for his actions in WWII Lordquinton Jan 2015 #17

Welcome back, guillaumeb! EvolveOrConvolve Jan 2015 #10

Thank you guillaumeb Jan 2015 #11

What do you think about science, in particular, the Scientific Method? EvolveOrConvolve Jan 2015 #12

absolutely agree with you on that guillaumeb Jan 2015 #14

I think truth itself is so abstract as to be almost worthless EvolveOrConvolve Jan 2015 #16

first thing i'd do, i'd reject ideologies that institutionalize said behavior. AtheistCrusader Jan 2015 #13

I'm not sure guillaumeb Jan 2015 #15

Has anyone here blamed all muslims? Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #19

Denying children health care and war and violence and insanity JDDavis Jan 2015 #4

Killing for your god is a time-honored tradition!1!! Respect it11! JNelson6563 Jan 2015 #20

It really is the extremists that are causing the trouble RussBLib Feb 2015 #23

"have distorted the Koran" trotsky Feb 2015 #24

distortion=selective attention RussBLib Feb 2015 #25

Sure, but that's still the deal. trotsky Feb 2015 #26