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3. Nice to see someone ready to admit idealism isn't a magic wand

Reply to beam me up scottie (Original post)

Sun Oct 25, 2015, 08:34 AM

Oct 2015

I suspect many defenders of Islam do it based on the faulty equation:

empathy/defend the downtrodden + many Arab coutries are poor = Islam is OK/innocuous.

While Arabs/Indonesians/Persians can be (and most often are) incredibly nice,

the religion mist of them espouse (Islam) is violent nonsense.

To be fair, the Torah/Old Testament also is nonsensical violent crap.

But nobody takes the T/OT as seriously as Muslims take the Quran. Hence the problem.

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I was wrong about new atheism, Sam Harris, and Islam [View all] beam me up scottie Oct 2015 OP

First, his racial profiling in which he sadly has had to re-explain too many times. AlbertCat Oct 2015 #1

I'm glad he realized he was wrong. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #2

Nice to see someone ready to admit idealism isn't a magic wand Yorktown Oct 2015 #3

Actually, I think that many DO! mr blur Oct 2015 #4

There are a lot of people (myself included) who defend Muslims irl. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #5