@Storm1752 The people that did this to this woman, I am not treating even handedly, they are reprehensible. But am I judging all theists in the same way I judge them - no. It's a world that is overwhelmingly filled with theists.

I identify as an atheist...but technically I'm an agnostic atheist, since I don't know a god doesn't exist. The people that did this to her are more than likely muslim, who are fundamental in their belief. So for them, even if I was a believer, if I didn't believe in their god...or their version of god, they would probably kill me.

I don't see any helping point saying there's a good theists, for me all the job is about calculating possibility of make them adult(someone as no longer believing unicorns as becoming adult) or leave them

Christianity does not condone killing. We believe the people behind the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition are burning in Hell.

You mean Society that gathered under the name of God, Islamic state, Shouldn't be hated by that? Even though their law allowing stone death penalty for atheist like me? I wonder their reaction If we make a same law against them here.

I'd like to believe that, but I've seen too many otherwise normal people commit terrible offences in the name of religion. Suicide bombers would be an example. Marginalised people that become radicalised and convinced to become martyrs. As the saying goes, good people do good and bad will do bad but for good men to do bad takes religion

@Cyklone You make a valid point.

Thank you for the explanation

Thank You ~

Agree

But I think the person who threw acid in his daughter's face ought to serve some prison time.

They read and preach the Quran everyday which is written about beating woman and cutting the infidels throat.

@SeaGreenEyez WTF? I owned Quran

@SeaGreenEyez If it's that good woman caring tradition, why don't you start wearing burka on your area?

@HaejungKim Have you red the Quran to be able to say that?

@HaejungKim Oh, how ignorant you are.

Ditto

Yeah true typing hate on pedophiles doesn't help any in real

Why do you expect an answer for a question, the assumptions of which you have not established as fact. In other words, your question assumes something you've not established to be true. It's like my asking you, do you still beat your wife?

Huh?
Nonsense.

@Storm1752 I honestly don’t take offense to your reply, if I’m wrong please offer me something more than nonsense. What exactly is nonsense?

@Storm1752 He means that the Mideast needs to be more secular. True. He is also accurately pointing out that that many Western fundamentalists claim to be pure but have actually been secularized. I know many fundies who have had sex before marriage, for example. They want it both ways...

@Krish55 Christians and Jews don’t kill people for working on the sabbath, Christians and Jews allow women to teach men, Christians and Jews don’t kill their disobedient children, Christians and Jews don’t kill women for having premarital sex. The list goes on and on.

@paul1967 Not true. Jews kill Palestinians with impunity all the time in occupied Palestine simply because the latter are not Jewish in what is supposedly the Promised Land. Catholic Christians killed Orthodox Christians for their religion in Bosnia and vice-versa. What you say is true of Western Christians and Jews in well-fed stable Western countries. But we know it wasn't that way when these countries weren't stable. Similarly, Islamic fundamentalism was a fringe phenomenon under Arab socialism. The issue then is the conditions that caused Islamic fundamentalism to grow and become dangerously widespread. Those conditions were created by the US in its destruction of the secular socialist governments in the Muslim world: Indonesia 1965, Afghanistan 1979 on, Iraq 2003, Syria and Libya currently. If you really hate Islamic fundamentalism like I do, then oppose the US Imperialism that instigates and feeds it. Otherwise you are just being a chauvinist boasting about the superiority of your culture while you go about destroying other cultures.

@Krish55 Two things, I never said it was cured, I said secularism has helped lessen the violence. That is an opinion I hold having lived for a while in the western world and researched the history of witch trial and dark age Christian actions. Lastly if you look back to my post you will see that I said it needs to creep deeper into the Middle East. However, I should have added Eastern Europe and Africa.

@paul1967 I certainly agree with the importance of secularism. In that case, oppose the US support of Islamic fanatics in the Muslim world (eg, Syria and Libya), Jewish fanatics (occupied Palestine), and Christian fanatics (Brazil, Central America) which is all done to oppose secular socialist governments that want to control their own resources. Fanaticism flourishes in the mess created by the exploitation and war caused by imperialism. This is more than a religious issue.

@paul1967 Moreover, you are whitewashing your own history here. Pun intended! What was the major Klan symbol? The Cross. Mark Twain commented about the good Christians being late for Church after a good lynching the night before. This radical Protestantism is why the Klan attacked white Catholics also. Your white Western history has been greatly whitewashed. It was under the auspices of Christianity that the Slave Trade and genocidal Colonialism was perpetrated. So don't try to assert any type of white Western moral superiority...

@Krish55 All I can say is I disagree with you, but I guess that’s what opinions are all about.

@paul1967 You "disagree" with the facts of your white Western genocidal history? Facts aren't subject to disagreement! You're using the word "disagreement" merely to engage in Denial. Just like holocaust denial.Why? Because such denial perpetuates your White Privilege!