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adidas campaigns "Create Positivity", immediately backfires
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Kearn on June 20, 2017, 10:27:25 PM ---hmm wonder which group has been violent in the past two centuries
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Muslims obviously, but the living conditions and backgrounds of the average jihadi are far different than a Catholic organist living in Seattle. The whole point here is that there are confounding factors that are more explanatory than religion, which don't require pointing fingers at innocent people to properly address.
--- Quote from: Timestamp on June 20, 2017, 10:28:45 PM ---i don't know anything about israel and i'm not educated enough on what the forget it is because i'm not interested about it.
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Solid point. No reason you would want to know about Israel when talking about world politics or history, considering it's literally the most politically-contentious sovereign state in the world right now.
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--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 20, 2017, 10:31:12 PM ---Solid point. No reason you would want to know about Israel when talking about world politics or history, considering it's literally the most politically-contentious sovereign state in the world right now.
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i'm clearly sure i was questioning a certain argument and now you're talking about israel
Planr:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 20, 2017, 10:25:39 PM ---Combined, those account for more incidents of violence than modern Muslims with a far smaller population, so that actually sounds like a pretty fair argument to me. Anything else?
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yeah you forgot the fact that such behavior doesn't continue today and that the vatican is a very peaceful place.
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 20, 2017, 10:25:39 PM ---The same thing happens in Christian-majority regions in Africa too. Beating your wife is pretty much ubiquitously legal, and they still stone homoloveuals. Turns out, regressive social ideologies are more correlated with living in a poverty-stricken stuff-hole moreso than any religious belief.
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again, isolated incidents, and the difference is that the teachings of christianity do not condone such violent behavior, and the former was universally condemned throughout biblical history. the teachings of islam are accepting of such violent practices.
Kearn:
i think the more pertinent issue is that catholicism became politically absorbed and corrupted to be a tool for the state, which ultimately resulted in the protestant reformation pulling back to the actual roots (and inevitably resulted in a lot of political violence by the church to suppress the reformation)
islam has not really had any defining reformation, and any splinter groups that claim to be originalists are even more violent and antagonistic than the sunni mainstream they split from
Red Spy:
the iranian revolution was a massive step forward in social progress