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Originally Posted by KiwiHopeful
Let's not forget that Christianity suffers from the same hypocrisy that Islam does.
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Yes, quite possibly, but Christians don't tend to stomp around waving knives and threatening to put non-believers to death. Not in this day and age, anyway. It's not such an intense religion, apart from a few zealots that take it a bit too far. With Islam, every little event seems to be blown up out of all proportion and becomes a life and death matter. Everything is black or white with no grey areas. I would say that not all Muslims, by any means, are like this and many are moderate in their beliefs and can see reason. However, Islam does seem to attract a larger than average number of fundamentalists who go over the top at the slightest provocation and one can't help but wonder what their true motives are.
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Originally Posted by KiwiHopeful
Islam isn't the problem. Christianity isn't the problem. Religion is the problem. Without religion good people would still do good things and bad people would still do bad things. Religion makes good people do bad things.
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I don't think it's necessarily religion that's the problem but people's interpretation and misuse of it. People are easily led when it comes to religious matters and this accounts for the firing up of the masses when someone strikes a match under them. People that are ordinary everyday folk, going about their lives, can suddenly turn into raving fanatics, baying for blood. We've seen it and also been caught up in it. It's really frightening that people can be whipped up this way.