Jon Stewart on the Ground Zero Mosque

8/10/2010
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mgittlesays...

>> ^bobknight33:

Muslime ===== the religion of death. Is is foolish to think that this is a peaceful, loving religion. They are the most murderous religion in the world.


Nice troll or whatever...cause nobody ever killed in the name of Christianity, right? More like Religion ===== the religion of death.

Anyway, if I could upvote twice for the Berka + cheesehead thing, I would.

ForgedRealitysays...

>> ^bobknight33:

Muslime ===== the religion of death. Is is foolish to think that this is a peaceful, loving religion. They are the most murderous religion in the world.


LOLOLOL U SO FUNEY.

No, but seriously, Do you not know the definition of 'extremist?' There are millions of Muslims. I don't see millions of car bombs. Certain people use the gullibility of weaker minds to impose rule, invoke fear, and exercise control over those weaker minds. Who better to control than those already with the propensity to believe retarded shit? So they go after religionists under the guise of righteousness.

This is part of the reason why I think all religion needs to be abolished. It's time we grew out of childish fancies, but we just have too many stupid idiots on the planet still. We haven't figured out how to evolve that out of our DNA yet. Until people learn to think for themselves, we will always have religious extremists, and idiot presidents.

SDGundamXsays...

Except then you'd still have the nationalist extremists, the political party extremists, the ethnic/tribal extremists, and all the other extremists out there too. Going to ban nations next? How about political parties? Ethnicities too? Religion doesn't cause extremism anymore than those other things do. Religion is neither the cause of nor an effect of stupidity. You said it yourself--certain people target other less educated people and use them to further their own ends. It's happened since the dawn of humankind. In the U.S. we call it "the political process." I don't see how banishing religion is going to solve that problem. I think education and more open communication among all people will help though.

>> ^ForgedReality:


This is part of the reason why I think all religion needs to be abolished. It's time we grew out of childish fancies, but we just have too many stupid idiots on the planet still. We haven't figured out how to evolve that out of our DNA yet. Until people learn to think for themselves, we will always have religious extremists, and idiot presidents.

ForgedRealitysays...

>> ^SDGundamX:

Except then you'd still have the nationalist extremists, the political party extremists, the ethnic/tribal extremists, and all the other extremists out there too. Going to ban nations next? How about political parties? Ethnicities too? Religion doesn't cause extremism anymore than those other things do. Religion is neither the cause of nor an effect of stupidity. You said it yourself--certain people target other less educated people and use them to further their own ends. It's happened since the dawn of humankind. In the U.S. we call it "the political process." I don't see how banishing religion is going to solve that problem. I think education and more open communication among all people will help though.
>> ^ForgedReality:

This is part of the reason why I think all religion needs to be abolished. It's time we grew out of childish fancies, but we just have too many stupid idiots on the planet still. We haven't figured out how to evolve that out of our DNA yet. Until people learn to think for themselves, we will always have religious extremists, and idiot presidents.



True. But look at all the religious idiots blindly following other religious idiots simply because they have that one thing in common. I think it would be a step in the right direction, not to say that it would cure all ails.

Winstonfield_Pennypackersays...

This is part of the reason why I think all religion needs to be abolished. It's time we grew out of childish fancies, but we just have too many stupid idiots on the planet still.

You are assigning blame to a symptom, not the disease. Human beings inherently fixate on "differences" and descend quickly into jackassery based on the differences as a means of justifying their pride, fears, greed, selfishness, and general brutishness. Religious bigotry is based not on "religion" per se but on the nationalism, tribalism, racial prejudices, and personal behaviors associated with religious followers.

If Religion was gone then people would instead harp on skin color, national origin, language, accents, nose shape, facial structure, or whatever other physical feature they could see or invent sufficient to supply enough mental justification to allow them to be a jackass if they want. Heck - they don't even need that. Humans will fixate on sporting teams, shirt color, hair style, how you walk - ANYTHING. Any difference, no matter how slight, is enough to do this.

Athiests and Agnosts need to learn a simple, basic fact... RELIGION does not teach people to be jerks. JERKS use religion to justify their bad bahavior. Christ did not teach people to hate each other. But just because someone joins a Christian church does not make them a good follower of his teachings. I imagine Islam is much the same. What we have here is a bunch of cave-dwelling jerks who are obsessed with the race & religion of others only insofar as it allows them to blow stuff up they don't like.

Human bigotry is the disease. Proper adherence to religious practice is the CURE - not the cause. THis is not to say that there aren't some religions who in some respects make this kind of jerkiness a part of their teachings. Sure it happens. But y and large this is the exception, not the rule. 99% of "religions" teach simple, basic, common-sense morality as a means of improving the world and drawing closer to God. It is a shame that 99% of PEOPLE who belong to a religion need to learn to be better practicers of what they preach.

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