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azseattle
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My understanding about extremism in religions based on my own experiences.. *DELETED*
#7396819 - 09/11/07 03:09 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Veritas

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Re: My understanding about extremism in religions based on my own experiences.. [Re: azseattle]
#7396912 - 09/11/07 03:31 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Thanks for posting that! Your POV is what I had gathered was true from my studies of Islam & the Qu'ran. It seems similar to what has happened with Christianity, where a small percentage of fundamentalists make all the noise & get all the publicity, but the extreme views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the majority of practitioners.
I'm not a fan of religion, myself, but I have no issue with other people choosing to be religious, so long as they keep it within their own life & out of the schools and lawbooks.
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Re: My understanding about extremism in religions based on my own experiences.. [Re: azseattle]
#7397305 - 09/11/07 04:56 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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That was a great post, thanks for sharing that with us.
Unfortunately what you speak of about religion 'becoming people's lives' is almost as much true in the United States as it is in the Muslim world. There are many different religions, all preaching approximately the same general message about being good to one another...but with slight differences from one another. Some of these religious groups tend to run to the fanatic side, by excluding others, promoting bigotry, physical and mental abuse, literal brainwashing and just plain ignorance (in the case of the Religious Right and the Moral Majority, who make up most of the zealous religious types in our government).
Its a shame that more people cannot understand that we all just want to be happy, no matter where we are. I have a feeling most of the populace of the world understands this deep down, but the vocal ambitious ones are the ones who end up in government offices. They tend to be the crazy power-tripping types who carry their own privately-held beliefs behind a pleasant facade that is there for the public.
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Re: My understanding about extremism in religions based on my own experiences.. [Re: Veritas]
#7400324 - 09/12/07 11:16 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Veritas said: Thanks for posting that! Your POV is what I had gathered was true from my studies of Islam & the Qu'ran. It seems similar to what has happened with Christianity, where a small percentage of fundamentalists make all the noise & get all the publicity, but the extreme views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the majority of practitioners.
I'm not a fan of religion, myself, but I have no issue with other people choosing to be religious, so long as they keep it within their own life & out of the schools and lawbooks.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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