[SonicFan]

Originally Posted by Casey.

Let's take the Religion debate to the Religion forum, that's what it's for after all.

I do have to say this though, well Islam may have extremists, Christianity does do. Actually all religions have their extremists, let's try to remember that before we judge a whole religion based on the actions of a dozen odd people.

That's very high handed of you, not what you said but the paragraph structure. The first one forbids us members from talking about it, but the second one gives your opinion which, from the first paragraph we cannot question (just like religious faith )

Much as religion belongs in the religion section it is an integral part of this story, nobody is pretending the violence has nothing to do with religion. If you wish to forbid talking about religion then close the topic.

It is true all religions have extremist buts there must be something wrong with the religion itself when someone can use it as an excuse to commit such acts. 9/11 happened in the name of Islam, the Birmingham pub bombings in the name of Catholicism.

I judge a religion not on what it tells people but how it acts. Islam, like Christianity and all other religions indoctrinate children which is wrong in any reasonable person's estimation

What would you think about me if I said "Oh you're catholic? going to grow up and become a kiddy fiddler are you?" Or "Ohhh you're American, haha I bet you can't even point out your own country on a map, aren't you all illiterate, racist, Bush-supporting bigots?" Both of these statements are doing exactly what you're doing -- making assumptions about the whole based on a minority. Yet these statements aren't considered okay, whilst "Islam is a horrible religion" is perfectly fine...

The first two examples you used cited a person and what would happen to them. As you rightfully said it's not considered okay (itself vaguely defined). A comparable one for Islam would be "You're a Muslim? You'll grow up to be a suicide bomber" which is not okay. There is a difference between religious people and religion itself .


Anyway, I've had to my say. To borrow a concept from religion: "this is my belief and it's right regardless of any evidence"