More religious violence: India

[Konovalov]

Originally Posted by Konovalov

My point of this thread was to voice my despair at the occassional stupidity of all humanity as evidenced in my comment below.

I didn't post here to apportion blame to any one religion, non-religion, or race. Please lets not turn this into a "which religion/non-religion has killed more people" kind of thing. Pretty please?

Obviously not many people paid much attention to my earlier request with this thread and the pages three through to five are evidence of that. I cannot believe what has transpired in such a short period of time (24 hours).

In hindsight I should have framed the topic of discussion better. I would fully accept that as criticism of me. And possibly because of this failing on my part people on all sides have used this as a jumping off point to launch attacks on religion in general, Christians, Muslims and Islam, and Atheists. Did I miss any group? In the topic that I started, Islam and Muslims had absolutely nothing to do with the event and news article linked to. Nor was there any mention or reference to athesists. This just proves that a few people are willing to inject their own agenda into a thread come hell or high water.

But while I am quite prepared to accept some responsibilty for poorly framing the topic of discussion all members should excert some form of self control not to mention personal responsibility for what you write here.

So is there any chance of discussing the complex and tense state of affairs in India between Hindu nationalists and fellow citizens whose only difference is that they are Christian?

Edit: Just noticed the post from Neal above. Fully agree on the freedom of speech thing. In fact I agree with the whole post. Listen to the boss boys.

[Frame57]

I apologize to you. I was just interjecting some reply that came up about Hitler. Not sure how that came up really. Moot point anyway. But to answer your question. It would be no. Because some people here do not even want a remote context of religion even mentioned and will keep begging neal to ban such topics. To me anyones religion is a cultural thing, but has an impact on society and should be discussed if appropriate. It has bearing and hiding from such topics gains nothing. Am example of this, is the Jihad mindset. Or any other mindset that wages war with a religious overtone. This explains motivation to me and helps one understand how and why people do the things they do.