• stown@sedd.it
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    8 months ago

    There are many different flavors of Christianity just like there are many different flavors of Islam. Each flavor has its own set of doctrines that they apply to themselves. None of those different flavors can claim to be the true flavor. Defining a religion by just one of its flavors is misguided and wrong.

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      8 months ago

      The difference is that the dominant branches of Islam are Shia and Sunni, and not, say, Nizari Ismaili which would be sufficiently modern and humane.

      Defining a religion by just one of its flavors is misguided and wrong.

      Saying this categorically without clarifying specific goal is misguided and wrong.

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        8 months ago

        Judging a group of people by one of its members is wrong, it’s the same form of prejudice.

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          8 months ago

          Nothing is wrong in abstract.

          While in this specific case if a religion can be genocidal at all, then Islam is more genocidal than Christianity.

          Also rather all but one.

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            8 months ago

            In order to prove this you would need a huge sample poll from each religion and it would need to be representative of the size of each flavor. Then and only then could you begin to make that kind of generalized statement.

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                  8 months ago

                  Because I want that. You seem to be under impression that we must prove something to be right, or in general that we must do things in conversations. No.

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                    8 months ago

                    You’ve been spending too much time around conservatives.