#PrayForLondon

This stuff has been all over the news, If people weren't aware of this event beofre this thread, They must of been living under a rock for the past couple of days. js.

 

North Koreans won't know about it, and they aren't living under a rock.

 

North-Korea won't get to know it on here neither due internet restrictions.
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Touché.

They're definitely living under a hardass though.

Dammit. There goes my idea to spread bronyism to them to get them to defect.

Apologies for late as reply, didn't get a notification about this.

Don't think for a second I don't know this is the fault of America and other nations meddling. Note, please, that my words were not 'religious war' but 'ideological war'. The issue is, however, that these people we are bombing do happen to have this very convenient holy text that states explicitly that in order to fight back, they should kill themselves and civilians.

It's hypocritical to condemn one form of atrocity and attempt to defend another. Both the US oil wars and the Islamic/religious wars that are currently happening are godawful.

I actively condemn Islam, however, simply because so many people flock to defend it on the principle of 'NOT ALL MUSLIMS'. Which is true. But just because NOT ALL AMERICANS want to bomb the middle east doesn't mean that we can't criticize those who do. Especially when you realize that these horrible and repressive counties like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, who America funds, commit this terrorism and repress their people in the name of Islam.

And again, it just so happens that that majority who make up the 'NOT ALL MUSLIMS' happen to still hold awful and demeaning beliefs that are taught to them by Islam, in the same way that a not insignificant part of American Christians hold awful and demeaning beliefs taught to them by Christianity.

 

Hashtag activism really, really, REALLY annoys me. Like on a physical level, especially "pray for X".

 

Strange

We have the same thing in the Bible. Neither text's purpose is to advocate for the death of nonbelievers - rather its specific passages that do. Again, a lot depends on interpretation.

Not sure where you get this idea that I'm condemning one atrocity and not the other. Of course terrorist bombings and U.S./UK imperialism are awful. That's not up for debate anywhere except in the Pentagon and on ISIS affiliated websites.

Do you actively condemn Christianity? Or Hinduism?

I have nothing against going after and arresting/hanging any and all terrorists.

For centuries Europe repressed their people in the name of Christ. We've only moved beyond that because there's not as much of a struggle over resources as there used to be and people have had more access to education.

Like you said, it's America, Mr. Freedom, propping up the world's most repressive regimes. Do you really think they'd be that repressive if they didn't have U.S. guns?

Christian and Islamic organizations have also done a lot of good. Also, "awful and demeaning beliefs", if we ignore the vagueness of that term as it's a value judgement, aren't limited to religious groups.

 

Very.

Seems odd that any God that cared about their people would leave in passages that could be freely and easily interpreted as calls to violence.

Didn't say you weren't. Said it was hypocritical to do so, not that you were a hypocrite. Apologies for any implication there, wasn't intended as a jab.

not actively, because not as many people defend it when it causes awful sh*t (see the WBC). I do however condemn Christianity as an awful guideline to judge morality. I know nothing about Hinduism.

Please note that I have nothing against Muslims, Christians, Hindus, etc. I just don't agree with and in many cases despise what their religions allow them to do (or condemn others for doing).

Terrorists (and many muslims) have nothing against hanging/stoning/generally killing people they disagree with too. I agree with arresting terrorists though.

Agreed. Shows how true that religion was, once there was less reason to fight and more people knew better, God disappeared!!

They were repressive before them too m8.

If you can attribute the good done by members of a religion to said religion, you have just as much of a right to attribute the bad as well.