¤ I´m bothered by all hatred and conflicts religions causes. If you are peaceful and tolerant to other people´s belief systems "in spite of" your religion that´s good. But also consider the responsibility you then have to try to do something about atrocities that might be going on in the name of your religion and intolerance shown to people who don´t share your faith and oppression of peoples´ rights to think for themselves, speak their mind and make decisions about their own lives. Otherwise you and all other moderate religious people who don´t do anything about this are really enablers of extremists; mafia wives.
¤ Questioning is what everyone who makes extraordinary claims without providing evidence for it to be true should expect. Especially someone who belongs to a religion that is involved in much conflicts, oppression and violence, like the Abrahamic religions are. I am also well aware that some religions have never been involved in atrocities and also that Christians in majority atheist countries in general are as tolerant as anyone else and might not understand what it is I criticise here.
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"You can tell you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
- Carl Sagan
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion." - Steven Weinberg
¤ ISLAM
Islam is the most dangerous, divisive and mind dulling religion there is today. It mostly includes a literal belief in every word of the Quran being divine and not allowed to ignore. Fundamental literal Islam is also a totalitarian political ideology and not just a religion. Still I want to have faith in humans´ ability to reform and improve their religious believes. Christianity has come a long way since the dark ages, in spite of all intolerance, demands of oppression and violence the OT contains and of course many Muslims have come a long way since the 7th century.
As long as there are literal believing Muslims considering religious rules to belong in politics we should expect and demand people moving here to have democratic values. They should get all the education about democracy and human rights they need to understand our system and to understand the difference between on the one hand what is matters that are individuals own choices since all grown up humans have a right to decide about their own lives and on the other hand what concerns the whole society.
Why should we not have any expectations on Muslims to want to integrate and to expect them to accept our fundamental values about human rights, democracy, freedom and equality? We look in silence, to not be called "Islamophobes" at crime rates being chock raised by some angry young Muslim men and at Islam producing some radical literal believing angry and political Muslims. What is wrong with us since we let this go on? Do we have a higher responsibility to take care of such refugees than to protect our own civilizations from being wiped out?
People who wish for Sharia laws or any other religious laws oppressing people´s freedom of choices and freedom of speech, does not belong in a democracy and everyone who isn´t born here and work, silently or openly, to make Islam part of politics and laws should be expelled for not understanding what constitutes a civilized society and for being a threat to other humans´ rights. Especially Imams/Mullahs and Muslim teachers teaching anti democratic values. They can move to any country with Sharia laws they like but they should not have any rights to live in any democracy.
I´m very glad that I am able to at least say this on Internet without either aggressive Muslims or politically correct naive westerners (buying Muslims´ tries to make people "Islamophobes", which would make us have an irrational fear of Islam, which isn´t the case) being able to shut me up. People are self censoring themselves because of fears of threats of violence from Islamists and for being hushed by naive politically correct people who don´t understand how they help Muslims to wipe out our fundamental rights. It´s amazing how just a few percentage of Muslims in populations can do so much to wipe out freedom of speech.
A vast majority of Muslims think people should be arrested for criticising Islam. There is something seriously wrong in these people´s understanding of human rights. What will happen when these people out-breed us (which they will in just a few decades) if we continue being politically correct and don´t have any form of expectations on people to accept democracy, fre
¤ I´m bothered by all hatred and conflicts religions causes. If you are peaceful and tolerant to other people´s belief systems "in spite of" your religion that´s good. But also consider the responsibility you then have to try to do something about...