Jon Stewart Bigger Than Jesus? (Stephen Colbert & Ayaan Hirsi Ali discuss rationality & religion)
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@MegaXanadude Remember "shock and awe" on the first night of the unprovoked assault on Iraq? I'd find it hard to believe that EVERY single citizen of Iraq was part of Saddam's Republican Guard or a Baathist. Civilians were dying at the hands of not only the Bush Administration, but CONGRESS! Send them all to the Hague! Guess what's happening as we speak? Fucking Al Qaeda is settling into Iraq (big surprise, right?)! These are political war crimes. Were much less safe after going into Iraq.
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@MegaXanadude True, in war that will happen. But, the war should have never happened. Whereas, terrorist acts are usually isolated and (outside of 9/11and OK City [not an Arab]) take far fewer lives than an actual war. I'm certainly not going to defend terrorists and I mean no offence to victims of terrorist acts. But, the 3k deaths of 9-11 are personal to us. BECAUSE it happened TO US. Try putting yourselves in the shoes of an Iraqi that has seen death on a much larger scale. ...T.B.C.
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At this point in time, you'd think radical Islam is the worst of the believing bunch. If you do (like I do/did), think about the religion of the government officials that sent the U.S. into Iraq. I'm fairly sure they're all Christian. The problem is that the 100,000 or so Iraqi civilians that died due to an immoral war, is that, in war, civilian deaths are euphemistically called "collateral damage."
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Yes, religious doctrine, when applied to important government decisions (e.g. federal funding of embryonic stem cell research) should and can be open season. Unfortunately, we've lost the most vocal, unapologetic (pun intended), and harshest critic of religion. Harris, Dawkins, and Dennett are brilliant men with much to say. But, they don't seem to have the anger and drive that Hitchens used to intellectually dismantle Islamofascists, and the Vatican's lack of response to kiddie fucking.
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@LigerSupremacy In-the-end, agnostics must be atheists. They aren't exactly believers, are they? Closet atheists? For most unbelievers, it's not easy to just come out and say "I don't believe in any God." Sort of like being gay! It may take years to be comfortable in telling your parents! While religion is on the decline, the nonbeliever is still safely in the minority. The mere sound of the word "atheist" will still get you a reaction. Usually not positive. Especially, in the U.S.
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Knowing Ayaan (from her book "Infidel" not personally) I would say that she is comparing the implementation of Christianity with the implementation of Islam. Not the theory from the books.
She says that Islam needs a reformation.
This is also a European perspective. Over here we have fewer completely crazy Christians to deal with so we tend to discount the danger of insane fundamentalist Christians.
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Reducing Islam to a set of texts & their contemporary critical study (inside or outside systems of religious belief) tells us exactly nothing about Muslim lives, values or societies. Ask yourself, is slavery a Christian practice? Muslim? Buddhist? The answer could be yes to all the above, or no, or maybe. What's true is that arguments by Christians/Muslims/Buddhists will always feature authoritative exegesis that substantiates their position. Religion is the most plastic material known to man.
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Thanks for the corpus of videos you've created, LiberalViewer. Religions aren't things that exist in any real way. They are part of meaning-creating and society-organising processes that can't be separated out and treated as distinct things. When we say "Christianity" or "Islam" or "Buddhism" we are talking about discourses of immense complexity and competing claims. (cont'd)
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@WillShakespeare2007 Well said
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She's awesome!
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@dabears17x
Absolutely wrong. Atheism is the rejection of faith. Atheists rely on reasoning and logic not faith. Agnostics operate under the scientific mentality that there is no proof of god but there is the possibility he may exist.
LigerSupremacy 2 months ago 8
I would say yes you can judge one religion better than another but you probably shouldn't. I think it is better to stick to specifics within the religion that you agree or disagree with.
But would most non religious people judge Buddhism to be better in general than Islam - I think they would.
WillShakespeare2007 9 months ago 4