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Originally Posted by blankall
Dude... This has nothing to do with religion... This is fascism and hatred. If it wasn't religion they'd find another excuse for this barbarism.
These monsters have done so many mental acrobatics to get themselves to this point, and it couldn't be further from the teachings of any religion.
This is society devolved to it's most barbaric.
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This is so annoying. First of all, you posted this immediately after I quoted directly from the teachings of the religion, condoning this behavior. It's patently obvious you're wrong.
I don't know where this meme got started or how it became fashionable but it makes absolutely no sense. Of course it "has to do" with religion - specific passages, tenets of a religious faith are the impetus for this behavior. The fact that there are other factors in play - economics, historical conflicts, ethnic feuds and whatever else you can think of - does not eliminate the major role religion plays in this behavior.
Dismissing them all as brutes - as if no matter what they believed, people from a certain part of the world are predisposed to barbarism somehow - smacks of the bigotry of low expectations.
In debates, Hitchens used to use the quote, “in the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion”. Apt.