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Permalink Reply by Nelson on November 12, 2009 at 6:21pm

you'll probably find Ibn Warraq's statement on the shooting at Fort Hood interesting. he urges everyone to stop being so "PC". people need to stop denying that Islam, and religion in general, has a causal relationship with these evils and is not merely incidental to them. i agree with him wholeheartedly.

of course i hasten to add, not for my freethinking friends here who i think i can assume would know otherwise, but for anyone else who may come across this post, i am NOT saying that all Muslims, nor indeed of course all religionists, are terrorists or that when they do something evil is it always as a direct result of their religion. i am merely agreeing with Steven Weinberg when he said, "Good people will do good things, and bad people will do bad things... But for good people to do bad things — that takes religion."

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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on November 12, 2009 at 7:11pm

Most religious people are not terrorists. Most terrorists are religious people.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Nichols on November 18, 2009 at 6:16am

Just wait until an unbalanced person who happens to not believe or can be vaguely shown to have not believed in god, publicly shoots something up for the American national media, there will be pitchforks and torches.

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