Originally Posted by
nitrox
The problem is extremism is always born in moderate religion first. You have extreme Muslims and moderate Muslims the same as you have extreme Christians and moderate Christians.
My argument would be that without the initial introduction to "normal" moderate religion extremism wouldn't be born in the first place.
People who practice "moderate religion" still do have a part to play in extremism. Yes they can say "well they went to our place of worship but then they fell into the wrong crowd and now they are an extremist and nothing to do with us"
That's the equivalent of handing a kid a firework and then saying "how we we supposed to know he was going to light it and throw it at someone, it's not our fault!".
The bottom line is if religion did not exist there would be no rallying cry in a certain religion's name to carry out horrific acts. Something all religions are guilty of at some point in time.
I don't know the forum rules on posting about religion so I am keeping my statement brief in the hope I'm not breaking the rules.
-Dan.
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