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Islamic Humiliation - Sam Harris @ The Science Network
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Thus religion isn't 'bad' its 'risky' and we have a much better gamble with democracy. This is due to the pyramid/top down structure of religion. Which is less strong in G1 nations.
+Businesses are run as a sort of 'benevolent dictator' but they are accountable to the laws democratically decided upon.+
And as long as competition is not restricted, then consumers vote with their spending dollar. Another argument for "one dollar one vote".
+Thus religion isn't 'bad' its 'risky' +
But risky is bad, which is why the free wheeling risky business that caused the global meltdown is bad. Religion too by its risky structure is bad. If religion was to adopt a democratic posture, it would probably lose its "bad" side. Till then its bad.
Power mongering is what Islam seems to be about, and terrorist groups are nothing more than gangster organizations in disguise.
Keep up the good work, Sam.
> their own societies are rife with corruption...
Many muslims and even many westerners say that is our fault - that between colonialism and propping up regimes friendly to our interests we have created corrupt islamic states. It is a crock. The number 1 reason for corruption in islamic states is that the quran is used as a Constitution. Savage, immature, 7th century, Arabian tribalism, the basis of the quran, is the source of the corruption.
+The number 1 reason for corruption in islamic states is that the quran is used as a Constitution. Savage, immature, 7th century,+
Here, here!
Another proof of this is the arabs once were the greatest scientists, then they adopted muslim philosophy, and they became primitives and lost any semblance of science. Then Islam has the temerity to cliam the secular arab science is Islamic. LOL.
His point that taking religion might not be the best way to handle terrorism seemed like a good point.
If my neighbour believes that yelling at 2am is part of his religious beliefs... my best bet get some sleep is likely not getting him to give up religion, but to suggest practicing somewhere else, to symbolically yell, to invest in a sound-proof room, etc.