I've been thinking about why we see the evil things people do today - genocide, murder, terrorism. So much of it religiously motivated.
So this is extremism and not the true interpretation of religion in the modern context. People commit atrocities with the belief (faith) they will go to paradise, or that they are doing something for the greater good. But religious moderates also advocate faith, which teaches us to believe without questioning, not to look for the answers to big questions, and not to recognise (not the same as tolerate) any point of view which contradicts what we have faith in. To this end, is faith really a good thing? It doesn't seem right to say "this is private, you can't challenge it, you must respect it" when at best it is a barrier to understanding in the moderate and an incitement murder in the extreme case.
2006-11-27
21:40:41
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Nick W
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