May 20 is ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’

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LabR@t said:
Aedus said:
Religion is everything that is wrong with the world.
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One day people will wake up and think this
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No they won't. Not unless they're deluded.

Does religion make gangs go out on drive-by shootings?
Did religion make Hitler do what he did?
Did air carriers cut corners that led to planes crashing because of religion?
Do companies exploit third world labour because of religion?
Do african dictators oppress their people because of religion?
Did Brittany Spears release a string of terrible records because of her religion?

I think not.
 
FoxEye said:
No they won't. Not unless they're deluded.

Does religion make gangs go out on drive-by shootings?
Did religion make Hitler do what he did?
Did air carriers cut corners that led to planes crashing because of religion?
Do companies exploit third world labour because of religion?
Do african dictators oppress their people because of religion?
Did Brittany Spears release a string of terrible records because of her religion?

I think not.
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well...
 
[TW]Fox;16439599 said:
It all confuses me really. If this guy is so unmentionable why do they all name each other the same name as him? Not sure I really understand how it all works, or why its such a big deal whether somebody who doesnt beleive in your faith draws your god or something?
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The only people saying it's unmentionable are the radical extremist groups and those related to them.

Everyone else just gets on with their lives like the people of any other religion, strangely those people actually have common sense.
 
Gaidin109 said:
As basic religious practice predates civilisation, with the animist religions and primitive belief structures. For example the Austrailian Aboriginal beliefs go back some 60,000 years coalescing into a structured religion about 6000 years ago, predating the first civilizations by thousands of years.
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As far as I'm aware, the oldest recorded history is some 5000 years old. Beyond that, there are no records of anything.

So... I'd take anything that mentions 60,000 year old events or beliefs with an extremely large dose of salt.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
Archaeologists unearth tools, settlements, possibly remains, and from that they make educated assumptions.
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They also make up a bunch of stuff if it means getting recognition or a slot on the Discovery channel.

Theories are rampant when facts are few.
 
FoxEye said:
No they won't. Not unless they're deluded.

Does religion make gangs go out on drive-by shootings?
Did religion make Hitler do what he did?
Did air carriers cut corners that led to planes crashing because of religion?
Do companies exploit third world labour because of religion?
Do african dictators oppress their people because of religion?
Did Brittany Spears release a string of terrible records because of her religion?

I think not.
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Im not deluded. But i think if religion was removed from the world there would be 1 less thing to cause problems.

Gods\Religions through out time have given humans reason to hurt one another. War over different beliefs, Genecide, Sacrifice, Self harm through refusing treatments.

The world as a whole would be very different now without religion, The Crusade was a holy war, one that started this whole problem that exists now! The Roman empire was extremely spiritual and constantly they used appeasment to Gods to allow killing and war.

however It would seem its human nature to argue and fight , so religion would be replaced with something else, to allow fighting and death
 
jp_bl_68 said:
They do?
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Yes. They do. Ever seen the programs where they basically get a bunch of different "scientists" to argue over where they think some ancient city was situated?

It's pure comedy gold. They'll all end up with a different location, and they're all "experts" in their field, or "researchers" or "scientists" or "geologists"; they haven't got a thing apart from speculation and their own personal interpretations of the small amount of facts they can muster.

And then this gets packaged up into an hour-long program and aired by the History channel or whatever. And people think "oh, he's a scientist, this might be the truth".
 
wannabedamned said:
Im not deluded. But i think if religion was removed from the world there would be 1 less thing to cause problems.
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You'd have biggers problem, because you'd have open rebellion when you tried to remove freedom of expression, freedom of belief and freedom of action, because you personally don't like it or agree with it.
 
FoxEye said:
You'd have biggers problem, because you'd have open rebellion when you tried to remove freedom of expression, freedom of belief and freedom of action, because you personally don't like it or agree with it.
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I wasnt talking about forcefully taking it away :p

More hypothetically 'if it had never existed'
 
Longbow said:
But we aren't going to Compton and making fun of gangsters. Neither are we going to Iran and making fun of Mohammed. We are in the UK/USA/Netherlands, and drawing a picture of Mohammed.
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No, but it was an example of something realistic.

What's the likelihood of getting shot by such people for simply making gang signs while in England?

I'm making like for like examples.
 
I am not Muslim so I can draw pictures of Mohammed. Pretty simple.

It doesn't mean I don't respect their religion, I just don't believe it myself so don't have to follow the rules.

Bunch of extremist nutters. We shouldn't give in to their demands, what next, banning of bacon?


But religion isn't the cause of the worlds problems, organised religion is often used as a tool to control and brainwash people but it isn't religions fault some people are evil and others stupid.
 
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