Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: alchemize
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: alchemize
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Originally posted by: alchemize
Sure, there are loonies out there in every religion. I'm more worried about the ones that are run by David Koresh-like nuts but with huge amounts of followers (like say - Islam), than tiny sects of christianity. Seems the left is more worried about rampant nativity scenes run amok.
Perhaps you could explain, then, how your paranoia is any different than
theirs. How do you define tiny and huge and how does one go to the other. Do you sit around and twiddle your thumbs till something becomes so large you become alarmed? How is your reaction to reactors to these Christian sects any different than
their reactions. It looks just as knee jerk to me.
Different than whom?
The rampant, nativity-scenes-run-amok, paranoid left, of course.
Gotchya. Not really different. I just think the rampant, nativity-scenes-run-amok, paranoid left is incapable or unwilling of seeing the true religious/"ism" threat in this world, namely radical fundamentalist islam.
My question revolves around why you think this. I see a movement toward more and more religious fundamentalism all over the world. I think, in part, it is due to stress, anxiety, culture shock, rapid development, enormous social problems, political uncertainty and all the rest. Simple minds need simple answers, demand them really since people don't like living in pain. I see this all as part of this greater threat. It just so happens that the Islamic world is exposed, and has been exposed to a whole ton of these stresses. I think your attitude to Islam is just more of this same fundamentalist reactivity, the need to have an enemy out there you can unload on. You have in common with fundamentalists every were the certainty that you are right. You know the true enemy. In my opinion, the only enemy I have is me, the delusion I suffer that my ego is me.