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In reply to the discussion: You Won’t Believe What These Muslims Are Protesting About [View all]Phillip McCleod
(1,837 posts)..to point out that fundamentalism and even violent extremism have as much or more basis in holy scriptures as do liberal and moderate reinterpretations.
indeed, the reinterpretations are cherry-picked, whereas the fundamentalists may cite chapter and verse of the koran, bible, or upanishads for that matter to justify the oppression of whole classes of people, theocracy, war on other faiths, and a host of other modern evils.
it's the liberal believers like the men pictured who have the uphill battle of trying to reach into the brains of fundies and pluck out the verses of their scripture that make them beat their wives into submission.
to hate religion for what it is, what it will continue to be as long as it's *written down that way*, is not bigotry. what is bigotry is to hate believers for the act of believing. to hate religion is to hate an idea.
i hate that idea, ok? it's no good.