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TorchTheWitch

(11,065 posts)
5. what's the faith to do with what they did?
Sun Jan 18, 2015, 07:25 AM
Jan 2015

They used their faith as an excuse to do horrible things. How does that make the faith - the religion - the problem? Is it so difficult to distinguish the difference between the terrible things people say or do in the name of their faith/religion and the faith/religion itself where the vast majority of believers including the faith's/religion's leaders condemn such behavior and would never engage in such behavior themselves?

That kind of thinking is no different than blaming the entire concept of Black Lives Matter as the problem when a few of the people associated with them take it upon themselves to throw bricks through windows or otherwise behave badly. Any normal thinking person would blame those few that behaved badly and that they did so for their own reasons having nothing to do with the concept of Black Lives Matter and that anyone stupid enough to blame the entire concept as the problem is just an intolerant bigot with their own sicko agenda.

And here you are attempting to blame the faith/religion as the problem for what some sick assholes did that the vast majority of that faith/religion condemn and would never do themselves rather than placing the blame where it belongs - on those that USED the faith/religion as an excuse to do something terrible.

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