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Posted by SLRT on Tue Jan 27 14:13:50 2015, in response to Re: 12 Worst Ideas that Religion Has Unleashed on the World, posted by SMAZ on Tue Jan 27 13:53:28 2015. What is bullshit is not whether the things are bad or not; What's bullshit is forcing the reader to accept the writer's core premises on each of her points without establishing them in advance. This is called "begging the question."For example: Are all these isuues unique to religions? Do they predate religion? Do secular ideologies promote these. What is religion, anyway? Do you take any practice of a social or ethnic group, big or small and label it religion? This is pop religion and is dependable as pop psychology or pop history. The writer also has the gall to asign the motives for a particular practice; for example, male circumcision. He finds difference between Muslims and Jews. Why? They come from the same core scripture. And why is the Muslim practice called "painful." |
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