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In reply to the discussion: Islamic State militant 'executes own mother' in Raqqa [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)at one time Christianity was the sickest of the lot. Today Islam is the sickest, most perverted of all of them. The fact that such an extreme violent gang of ISIS grew so fast and is so effective could have only happened because they have a large portion of the Muslim world that moved the goalposts so close to that medival edge. That is religious conditioning. If 50% of them still believe that if another human has the audacity to decide for him or herself what God looks like, where he comes from, or if he even exists....they should be executed immediately That is one nasty virus. And the Islamic world is not doing enough to moderate its interpretation of the Koran.
The one saving grace of the Christian religion may be the message of Jesus. And the message of loving your enemies and doing good to those that harm you etc...The parts that Ghandi admired. The new testament has worked as a buffer against too aggressive of behaviour by using old testament verses. Although one could make arguments about W. Bush's God led invasion of Iraq, that even Christianity still can be abused and steered for political purposes.
That's why all religion is a sickness to some degree. Its a mind control device that gives the user the incomparable gift of everlasting love, and life, and righteous superiority....if only one lives by strict moral rules and gives themselves over to any suggestion that their local chosen paster, priest, or other clergyperson and church leaders perpetrate on them by slow methodical sermonizing together with immersion in the fellowship of the cult, and feelings of being part of a community. This is not bad in its own right, but as an arm of the cult of religion it serves the greater purpose. That of spreading the virus further.