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| SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Planr on June 20, 2017, 10:33:48 PM ---yeah you forgot the fact that such behavior doesn't continue today --- End quote --- But the fact that it did exist is what we're talking about. People were making the same arguments that you are right now, but against Catholics and the Pope during the Crusades. In retrospect, we realize that it's stupid to blame Catholics for violence when their religion wasn't the ultimate cause, but you seem to be unable to extrapolate that logic to the modern age. --- Quote from: Planr on June 20, 2017, 10:33:48 PM ---again, isolated incidents, and the difference is that the teachings of christianity do not condone such violent behavior --- End quote --- I mean, neither does the Quran in the way that CIA commits violence. Both the Quran and Bible have plenty of verses about stoning certain people for certain behavior, and, given the need for some kind of violent insurgency, extremists have occasionally exploited both texts as a reason to mobilize violence against other people. --- Quote from: Kearn on June 20, 2017, 10:33:59 PM ---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 --- End quote --- Arguably most modern religions reflect 'reformation' from a pre-existing faith. The way new religions are created is that a reasonably-sized sect of believers decide to separate, and then their independent beliefs evolve into a distinct faith. Same reason why a bunch of Middle-Eastern Jews turned into Christians. --- Quote from: Red Spy on June 20, 2017, 10:34:47 PM ---the iranian revolution was a massive step forward in social progress --- End quote --- Remember the time when US Democratic nation-builders had a democratically-elected leader overthrown and imprisoned in Iran, only to install a literal dictator? |
| Kearn:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 20, 2017, 10:40:00 PM ---Arguably most modern religions reflect 'reformation' from a pre-existing faith. The way new religions are created is that a reasonably-sized sect of believers decide to separate, and then their independent beliefs evolve into a distinct faith. Same reason why a bunch of Middle-Eastern Jews turned into Christians. --- End quote --- is your claim here that catholicism and protestantism are entirely different religions? |
| SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Kearn on June 20, 2017, 10:43:27 PM ---is your claim here that catholicism and protestantism are entirely different religions? --- End quote --- I can't make a theological argument that they are, but in my mind I consider them pretty distinct, yes. |
| GrenadeSpammer:
One would think a company as massive, innovative, and as wealthy as Google would know proper business conduct. One would suppose not. One would think they would learn from their first mistakes. One would suppose not. |
| dirtymurphy:
it's too bad people bicker with eachother over these refugees instead of getting pissed at their government for funding and prolonging a civil war in their country. |
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