"You can't blame religion for religious people"

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2006-05-22 11:08pm

Dark Hellion wrote:I think you are making a jump between the specific and the abstract, Mr. Wong. Religion as a concept has not, to my knowledge, had any good argument made to state that as a whole it is morally wrong.

I think you are making a jump between the specific and the abstract. I never said that all religions were harmful; I said only that you can blame a religion for the actions of people who are inspired by it. Don't put words in my mouth.

Dark Hellion · Post by **Dark Hellion** » 2006-05-22 11:19pm

Sorry, I misread your post. I assumed by institution you were refering to all religion, but I noticed that you put Christianity in all other posts. Sorry for putting words in your mouth.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2006-05-23 06:57am

Darth Wong wrote: I think you are making a jump between the specific and the abstract. I never said that all religions were harmful; I said only that you can blame a religion for the actions of people who are inspired by it. Don't put words in my mouth.

How do you discern how much inspiration a text had, out of interest? With the quran, bible, etc, it's easy to show where the antigay sentiments, for instance, come from, but then you get people doing stuff supposedly "inspired" by GTA, or say you got some muslim fundie copying the methodology and general scenario, but not the message of some white supremacist book with some terrorism in.

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2006-05-23 07:18am

I think you are making a jump between the specific and the abstract. I never said that all religions were harmful; I said only that you can blame a religion for the actions of people who are inspired by it. Don't put words in my mouth.

In which case, what the hell were you an Alyeska arguing about? I was under the impression that Alyeska's position was that you couldn't blame ALL religions. Of course, I'm not sure what that had to do with this Chirstianity-oriented thread...