That is a a grossly innacurate and mindless statement.

Les

 

Well, partially inaccurate and slightly mindless I would say. There's a significant number of 'right-on' Christians, Buddhists are fairly tame and proponents of Jainism certainly avoid the whole hate thing but, I think the second part of the man's statement is completely accurate.

 

All followers of any religion are nuts in my book, but what you typically get is the "softer left wings" trying to holistically justify the entire religion - and by default this includes their "hard right wing" elements.

 

That is also inaccurate.

Those who follow the true tenets of the religion will not support the actions of those trying to use the religion to their own ends. You are entitled to your opinion, but you should not let your bias affect it.

Les

 

You are that soft left..... to the extreme right, it's a fact... not an opinion, I'm not bias as I hate all religions equally.

 

You are wrong, it is not the religion which causes wars and unrest, all that is done by people!

Les

 

I am neither left or right, I prefer to be unbiased and to have a fair opinion.

Les

 

For a so called "Christian" you're certainly argumentative.... whatever happened to "peace & love"

 

So a fence sitter... they're the worst, sitting there not really having an opinion and yet criticising anyone else that does

 

religion is just a word for beliefes, name a war that wasn't started due to beliefs?

only other motorvation is money

 

In the sea of brazen and hopelessly inaccurate posts that this stupid thread has become, this stands out above all others, well done, good work

 

Maybe we should disbelieve everything then?

 

Oh look.... a baiting post from the resident tree hugging humanitarian.... thanks appreciate the shout out

 

its how you act on it, not what you believe

like right now my belief is its time for a brew,,,,,, that i shall be acting on lol

 

Damn you DCI, you just stole my thunder

 

You can have it back now - well till tomorrow

 

...following a religion that was invented by people and so on and so forth ad infinitum.

 

Someone mention a bacon sarnie...





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Big error, they are not following the religion!

Les

 

You don't know whether I am even religious.

Les

 

Now I know you are scraping the barrel for further criticism.

Les

 

Getting into the semantics never proves anything and shows you are scratching around for an answer.

Your statement above does not prove anything about the causes of war pertaining in any way to religious beliefs. Tell us about the start of the two world wars for a start!

Les

 

It's like magic - you type words but equally say "nothing"

 

You're not being coherant, Les, or carrying a point.

 

Following on from your post, I am saying that fanatic terrorists who carry out murderous actions connected with a religion are not as you said "following that religion"

You made that remark in reply to my post#197. I hope you can work that one out now! Seemed plain enough to me.

Les

 

How strange that you seem unable to understand such a simple statement.

Please explain why you say that I don't have an opinion. Pretty crass thing to say under the circumstances.

Les

 

The confusion lies with you referencing an abstraction.

Ok, so are you saying, in line with AbbasSTI on the Islamism thread, that terrorists are not following the 'correct' teachings and therefore the founder of the religion and apologists and 'true practioners' are absolved of blame?

If you're not saying that, can you make it absolutely crystal clear what your point is, please?