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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 279216" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p>Most religions look pretty strange to people on the outside.</p><p>Christians apparently worship a zombie (rose from the dead and stumbled out of his tomb after 3 days or so...), and then there's that whole cannibalism thing where they eat his flesh and drink his blood on a regular basis.</p><p></p><p>Islam is clearly a violent religion if you take the Koran literally, but the real problem is that religion is such a powerful, dominant social institution in many middle eastern countries. Go back three or four hundred years, to when the church had similar power in the west, and christianity was pretty capable of giving the muslims a run for their money in the atrocity department (witch burnings, the Inquisition, crusades, etc). </p><p></p><p>I think the long term answer is education and individual empowerment, both of which played a big part breaking the hold that religion institutions had over populations in the west.</p><p></p><p>When you're illiterate and living under a dictatorship, religious faith is often the only thing you have to believe in, and it's a situation that pretty clearly breeds extremism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 279216, member: 4805"] Most religions look pretty strange to people on the outside. Christians apparently worship a zombie (rose from the dead and stumbled out of his tomb after 3 days or so...), and then there's that whole cannibalism thing where they eat his flesh and drink his blood on a regular basis. Islam is clearly a violent religion if you take the Koran literally, but the real problem is that religion is such a powerful, dominant social institution in many middle eastern countries. Go back three or four hundred years, to when the church had similar power in the west, and christianity was pretty capable of giving the muslims a run for their money in the atrocity department (witch burnings, the Inquisition, crusades, etc). I think the long term answer is education and individual empowerment, both of which played a big part breaking the hold that religion institutions had over populations in the west. When you're illiterate and living under a dictatorship, religious faith is often the only thing you have to believe in, and it's a situation that pretty clearly breeds extremism. [/QUOTE]
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