Religion Sam Harris destroys Political Correctness on Islam

[BlazerWookee]

My bad. I misread your post then. And I agree that the Westboro church wasn't the greatest straight-line analogy. FWIW, I'm practicing atheist, so I don't have that much skin in the game when it comes to religions. I think they're all a bit crazy in their own way. Islam just seems to be the one struggling the most with modernity at the moment. Hopefully these spasms of violence give way to an Islamic version of the Enlightenment.

Wait. Atheism takes practice?

 

[Nikolokolus]

Wait. Atheism takes practice?

Deprogramming definitely took practice.

 

[jlprk]

The expert quip to jlprk wasn't directed at you. It was to the unnamed experts jlprk talks to who say that good Muslims are Judeo-Christian ones. I didn't take your post to be anything of the sort.

I don't talk, I read. A big issue lately has been that some Republicans wanted Obama to use the term "radical Islam" or "radical Muslim" and that Trump will use the term. It means the same as "bad Muslim." The term translates to "Muslims we should kill."

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en....7.7.0.85.483.7.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.XYJtK3ioxfA

A Freudian projection is a perception of others as ourselves, when they are not. What I wrote above is that these Republicans project their own religion's value system onto a billion Muslims, who will never conform to the European value system no matter how much you torture them. Your war with a billion people is an evil war. Even if it had a virtuous goal, and the goal is simply to increase Western power over the East, it will not win anyway. 3 million deaths in Iraq, dozens of torture asylums around the world...it's not only unwinnable, it not only increases the counterattacks upon the West, it's also evil and morally indefensible.