I'm Tired

[Lion]

I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.

I'm really really tired of people so ignorant about history to know that at one point or another, every religion has been a major excuse to kill. I despise what's being done in the name of my religion, but I can help but wonder about this uneducated people who completely ignore the worst mass killing in the world to exterminate another religion was headed by a Catholic. That the crusades were barbaric to put it nicely, the Spanish Inquisition, the intentional small pox infections of Natives of North America, the persecution of Jews during the Black Plague, the blatant discrimination against blacks in US because it was in the bible somewhere?, the massive discrimination against gays and lesbians, and the list goes on and on.

I don't hate Christians or Christianity, I hate those who abuse the word of God to do evil, whether they claim to be Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, or whatever they may be.

[Thorne]

I hate those who abuse the word of God to do evil

Which word of God? Which God? There have been so many, and none of them actually said a thing. It's all smoke and mirrors. The words of the Torah, the Bible and the Quran are so contradictory and vague that anyone can use them to justify just about anything. And people do just that.

I'm tired of people claiming that the bloviations of ancient shamans are really the word of some god, if you just interpret them right. Hogwash.

[thir]

Quote Originally Posted by Lion View Post
I hate those who abuse the word of God to do evil

Which word of God? Which God? There have been so many, and none of them actually said a thing. It's all smoke and mirrors. The words of the Torah, the Bible and the Quran are so contradictory and vague that anyone can use them to justify just about anything. And people do just that.

I can understand Lion! My sprituality/ideology/religion? is also abused as being evil, when it is really about liking the Earth and its wonders, and wanting to save it all for my grandchildren if I ever get some - ok, someboy else's grandchildren.