Every Muslim is a terrorist, period!!!!!

[1prophet]

That is true to the extent that every person is a potential terrorist risk. Muslims certainly have a higher propensity, but the vast majority stand no real chance of becoming a terrorist threat absent the kind of traumatic life event that causes so many people of every religion to snap. Having a religion or nation kill one's child will drive some to terrorism. Some require only some perceived slight. Others require something incredibly horrific like having their entire family wiped out. And others have the strength to absorb something like that without succumbing to the urge to cause others such pain.

Religion is generally something into which we are born, and most people accommodate that religion with our innate sense of fairness and human decency. We can see those without such values are more susceptible to terrorism due to Islam's violent teachings, but look at the dude who shot up the abortion clinic. It's not like Planned Parenthood accidentally wiped out his family and drove him to terrorism, he simply seized upon a thread of violence within Christianity as something that would make him important, or maybe just not so empty. Same general principle, and we can note the different likelihoods without pretending this is only a Muslim thing. It's a human thing.

That is a fallacy, religion is a choice, no such thing as a Muslim, christian, Scientology, atheist, agnostic gene, etc., just like people aren't democrats or republicans because their parents that they were born to are,

and the sooner people start treating is as such the sooner we can move forward from stupidity which on the conservative side makes people believe that Obama is a Muslim because his father was or the truly ignorant stupidity on the liberal side who should know better that try to equate Islam with race or brown people and defend it as such.

 

[realibrad]

That is a fallacy, religion is a choice, no such thing as a Muslim, christian, Scientology, atheist, agnostic gene, etc., just like people aren't democrats or republicans because their parents that they were born to are,

and the sooner people start treating is as such the sooner we can move forward from stupidity which on the conservative side makes people believe that Obama is a Muslim because his father was or the truly ignorant stupidity on the liberal side who should know better that try to equate Islam with race or brown people and defend it as such.

I think his point was not that people are born and genetically driven to one. I think he was talking about being born into a culture that shapes how someone develops their beliefs. If you are born into a Christian culture, you are likely to become a Christian because that is what you are taught to believe.

 

[norseamd]

I think his point was not that people are born and genetically driven to one. I think he was talking about being born into a culture that shapes how someone develops their beliefs. If you are born into a Christian culture, you are likely to become a Christian because that is what you are taught to believe.

Exactly. Sometimes I find the atheists as dumb as the fundamentalists.

 

[realibrad]

Exactly. Sometimes I find the atheists as dumb as the fundamentalists.

Dumb people are dumb people. I am an atheist and yet I do not consider myself dumb. My girlfriend is a Catholic but I do not consider her dumb.

I wish that Punisher guy would come back and comment. I pm'ed him and he said he would comment later, but I do not think he is going to.