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And while I can say that extremists were to blame for the deaths in France, many of the devastating global events have been steeped in religious beliefs - however distorted these views may be.

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PP again. And many of the most devastating global events have been based on secular views, and I say that as a near-socialist. What's your point? Do you always base your opinions on cherry-picking and selective evidence?[/quote]

The difference is that we can criticize secular justifications for murder. We feel that somehow it's not fair to criticize people's religious reasons for doing something bad. Stalin, bad, Pol Pot bad, Mao bad, no secular atheist will defend the reasons these people gave for doing what they did. But the flip side is not true for religion. Religion as at sometime in history been used to justify killing children, slavery, and genocide. Religion's claim is that it represents the will of God, it is beyond reason.

Look how many people criticized Charlie Hebdo's cartoons. The world is pussyfooting around Islam's role in the attacks in France even as the attackers chanted "God is Great". We must have an open and frank discussion about the role of religion as it affects not just the practitioners, but non practitioners. You, me, us, we all are non-practitioners of some religion. Religion should not be given a free pass, it deserves no special respect, it should be brought out in the open and critiqued. [/quote]

Of course we can criticize religion's role in events. People do this all the time. The Inquisition sucks and Dawsh/ISIS sucks. There, I said it.

[b]As an aside, do you study creative writing? Because I feel nothing but admiration for your imaginative re-write of your original alcoholism/drug abusers/stupidity posts.[/b][b][/quote]

Your line is ironic, you must realize.[/quote]

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