Garavnoss wrote:Tim Drayton wrote:miltiades wrote:" Allah [the merciful" "
Listen you sick bastard. Answer one question.
How come that this false ( All religions are false ) so called religion has its roots in the most impoverished, third world countries with the highest levels of illiteracy, plus they are also all killing themselves to join the free world.
Fucking idiots like you and your mate the psycho ought to rush and join their creator.
I often wonder which is cause and effect. Is it indoctrination in religion that makes people stupid and backward, which in turn keeps them poor, or is it
poverty and hopelessness makes people turn to religion as a source of comfort?
Upon the assumption that you would not object to the slight alteration, I would be bound to agree with the RED highlighted section of your comments although I think it would be rather harsh to impose the views of a non-believer upon those who adopt a religion for the reasons you specify.
If a person embraces a religious order [be it whatsoever] for the reasons highlighted, it would be out of desperation that they did so and it would be unthinkably cruel of any person with Atheistic views to try to discourage them, after all, if one were responsible for the removal of their hope [or prayer for divine help] the unfortunate one under the influence of the Atheist who would obviously wish to impose his [or her] opinion on the non existence of the "Almighty", would be left with nothing since all hope would have gone.
I really think that it is one's duty to tread carefully when dealing with such issues as religious beliefs, it is far too easy to offend those who may hold their faith firm against any contrary views [even under severe duress] and I certainly would not recommend the practise of ridiculing the legions of IS, there are too many of them about and one could live to regret such ridicule.
Respect has to be mutual. If a person wants to believe in something irrational (from my perspective), engage in empty (from my perspective) acts of worship and so on, I would be the last person to stand in their way. Indeed, I accept that a lot of good things have been done in the name of religion as well as plenty of heinous acts. However, I also expect them to show the same tolerance towards me as an atheist. I do not go out of my way to impose atheism on anybody. If, on the other hand, others try to impose their views on me, they cross a red line and I consider myself to be entitled to argue my ground. You come here and engage in propaganda in favour of the organisation most Arabs call:
داعش
and which has been transliterated as DAESH in English, an ultra-religio-fascist organisation which believes itself to have the monopoly over the truth and sees itself fit to declare those who disagree with it to be 'kafirs', even if they are Sunni Muslims, and to have the right to kill or enslave them, and this crosses the said red line in that I am undoubtedly somebody whom DAESH would deem to be a kafir, and so am threatened by them, and I see myself justified in arguing against them.
By the way, you have agreed that it is not OK to sell children as sex slaves. So, if there existed a gang of thugs who were capturing children and selling them as sex slaves you would presumably be opposed to them. For some reason, you do not believe, or wish to believe, that DAESH are doing this, but an overwhelming body of evidence is building up to the contrary, and for this among other heinous crimes against humanity that they are committing, I find them to be odious and wish for them to be eradicated. It fills me with hope for humanity to see effective resistance organisations growing in the places occupied by and suffering oppression from this gang. The end is nigh.
