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Ian Buruma, How is Religion Like Soccer?

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Uploaded by on Mar 24, 2010

Writer Ian Buruma discusses whether democracies can compromise with religious politics, how to do it, and why religion, like soccer, may never go away.

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  • It´s very clear that B is not an atheist, giving religion a special, inaccessible status above all criticism.That´s why he has such problems with the enlightenment.Stop comparing Cristianity with Islam concerning democracy, it´s ridiculous.

  • Again and again B refuses to recognize that islam is politics in the disguise of religion, or at least with a religious varnish.Christianity has accepted secularism long time ago. To arabs all east asian muslims(indonisians) are second class muslims not reading the koran in arabic and not implementing islam correctly in politics and society.

  • I agree with everything except the point about bullfighting. I think it is problematic to ritualistically torture an animal in an attempt to try to diffuse the lust for blood and violence [which have such totemic social importance] while sanctioning just that as an "art form."

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