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backwoodsbob

(6,001 posts) Wed Jan 7, 2015, 06:38 PM Jan 2015

so can we finally admit there is a problem between religions that is getting scary? [View all]

I would safely say over 99% of the adherents of Islam are peace loving people who just want to raise their families and live their life...but that leaves that 1 or so % who are completely insane and with a religion of over one billion people thats a lot of nuts.At the same time over 99% of Christians are peaceful people who want to live their lives but the 1% leaves a lot of nuts

More killing obviously isn't the answer...50 years of fatwas vs our version of fatwas has just made things into a big mess.

I don't know the answer and I am not proposing one.Smarter people than me have failed this problem.I just know something has to give or we are going to see a new crusade.

I just don't know the answer but this shit is getting scary and if something doesn't give we are about to see a religious war

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so can we finally admit there is a problem between religions that is getting scary? [View all] backwoodsbob Jan 2015 OP

We can't ignore the economic factors too. Being in a war zone foments extremism. arcane1 Jan 2015 #1

I don't see this as between religions as much as between religions and everyone else not of djean111 Jan 2015 #2

So, doesn't this ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #3

Man, people have been racking their brains about this very issue for thousands of years... SomethingFishy Jan 2015 #4

It don't think even alien invasion could unite us Fumesucker Jan 2015 #10

Indeed, if the aliens were at all politically astute they could have half of us killing the other SomethingFishy Jan 2015 #11

Fundamentalism is the problem, not "problem between religions". uppityperson Jan 2015 #5

"Fundamentalism is the problem" handmade34 Jan 2015 #7

The problem is there, and getting worse. NYC_SKP Jan 2015 #6

they probably did mean exactly that, i didn't watch the video. it might be complicated.... Adam051188 Jan 2015 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Jan 2015 #8

We need less religion. TransitJohn Jan 2015 #12

The absence of religion doesn't make the worst of humanity any less bloody minded as Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #16

LOL, that old canard. TransitJohn Jan 2015 #17

I didn't say atheism. I said the absence of religion. The absence of religion does not equal the Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #20

99% of the victims of ISIS and other Islamic extremists are other Muslims. Calista241 Jan 2015 #13

If it wasn't religion, terrorists would use some other excuse. Jamastiene Jan 2015 #14

+1 exactly. n/t FSogol Jan 2015 #15

Truth. Dr. Strange Jan 2015 #18

religion is just a tool for the same old power games. big and small-power games. NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #19

Bingo. The Al Aqsa Martyr's brigade is majority Christian Recursion Jan 2015 #22

we seem to think there is some golden answer that will make all this go away. liberal_at_heart Jan 2015 #21

Define peace-loving - far more than 1% support the death penalty for blasphemers. Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2015 #23

We can't even admit that guns are a problem in this country. 6000eliot Jan 2015 #24