My move is to be a true atheist/agnostic and not to defend a particular religion because of political reasons or for fear of seeming "intolerant".
I can be a true atheist/agnostic and still defend Islam. (ever hear of devil's advocate? yes)
I'm not fearing myself seeming to be intolerant.
I'm simply pointing out the fact that others are being intolerant.
You can't deny that the majority of Muslims are peaceful. Others point to Islam and say it is violent. I say this is not the case. This is exactly what an atheist can do best... stand in the middle.
(Of course I can post pics/vids making fun of jesus without worrying about being deemed "intolerant", because I guess it's all good as long as you're only making fun of or criticizing christianity)
Trust me people can post vids here making fun of Islam too. There would be
zero defenders. Nearly every vid that I posted were theology-neutral. There were a
few that weren't.
In about a week you've went from starting a thread that was supposedly intended to unite all atheists for the "cause" to actually defending a religion that is more responsible for the murdering of innocents and imposing of religious ideology on others than any other religion in recent history(let's say the past century or half century).
It wasn't intended to unite it was intended to get ghey atheist music. I'm simply taking the neutral atheist stance. Christians or anyone pointing at Islam and calling it inherently violent are overlooking 90% of the population. An atheist is (nearly) the only person that can take this middle ground and point out the hypocrisy. The hypocrisy when a Christian points to the entirety of Islam and declares it evil and violent because of the actions of less than 10% of its population. It's hypocritical because a Muslim can just as easily point to the entirety of Christianity and declare it evil and violent because of the actions of less than 10% of its population. (cites all Christian terror here)
An atheist is in the perfect position to point out this hypocrisy.
We can
ultimately say that both sides are being silly, yes.
But we must start by convincing them to stop pointing the fingers at each other.
We need to convince them that they are in the same boat together. That
both sides have their extremism and that on
both sides the MAJORITY is PEACEFUL.
An atheist is in the perfect position to stand in between both religions and say, "stop pointing the fingers"!
And personally, I'm more worried about radical muslims converting other muslims to radicalism than I am about them converting non-muslims.
Equivalently, I'm more worried about radical Christians converting other Christians to radicalism than I am about them converting non-Christians. One and the same.
Look at what has happened in the swat valley in the past few years. The Tablian are forcing other muslims to practice their extremist form of islam, in a country that has nuclear weapons.
Taliban are aren't indicative of the whole just as the
Army of God isn't indicative of all of Christianity. You're referring to the 10% again.
Christians have people going door-to-door in a country that has nuclear weapons.
Hopefully, the Taliban won't take over the country.
Hopefully, the Jehova's Witnesses (some kinda form of Christians, same Bible at least) won't take over the country.
I'll watch them later, with an open mind of course. If you remind me.
And calling something bullshit doesn't prove that it is. You'll have to do better than that.
That site is basically a parody. The site that those scriptures you posted come from.
Religion of Peace. <--click this link
If you look under the title (Religion of Peace) it says "and a big stack of dead bodies".
Do you think that this represents the Sunni majority?
It's a parody "Religion of Peace" and "a big stack of dead bodies."
If you click the about link on that site you get this...
"
Here is why we exist: On 9/11, nineteen devout Muslims believed they had a religious mandate to fly planes into buildings and slaughter thousands of innocent people.
The Muslim world erupted with outrage over this horrible act of mass murder. Massive demonstrations were held in nearly every Muslim country and Western city. At these demonstrations, Muslim leaders harshly denounced Islamic terror and shared the many hundreds of verses from the Qur'an that encourage universal brotherhood, peace and tolerance. A slew of fatwas and clerical condemnations against terror soon followed.
Tens of millions of ordinary Muslims also reacted by rallying against violence and demanding that their leaders root out and eliminate the Islamic terrorists and their supporters. These same Muslims and their clerics called for introspection and atonement, accepting the role that the radical elements of their religion played in the attacks, and committing themselves to combating and eradicating the misinterpretation of their religion - the Religion of Peace... "
