As a man with a Muslim father, extremist can't show where their religious text tells them to beat and rape women because they are a lesser sex the same way White people in the 1800's tried to twist the Bible to say whites were superior to blacks.Terasawa wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 3:08 pm It wasn't my intention to start a religious discussion, but since this has no come up:
Their actions are driven by their understanding of their religion, so yes, it was religion, or more precisely a specific interpretation of holy texts.miguelnuva wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 2:10 pm Yeah because it was religion that told insane people to interpret the words in a way to justify being assholes.
To you they're "insane" because you don't agree with their extremism.
Religion has driven mankind to commit unspeakable crimes just as it has motivated some of its most beautiful works of art. Don't excuse religion's fault in this case simply because you don't agree with the criminals or the way they practice their faith.
Religion has caused people to due fucked up things but it's because they twisted the words to fit their narrative. Same way people bring up the Bible to say why gay couples or wrong but leave other parts out.
Any extremist group especially one that attacks and kills others for disagreeing with them are insane in my book.
If I used Godzilla and Mothra as a reason to kill people because they were screwing up the planet would you blame me and my followers or would you blame Godzilla and Mothra?