Arrogance

Submitted by CanadianChris (Canada), Jan 7, 2007 at 13:31

Quote from, LARS NIELSEN

"And besides, muslims, who want to live in the west, simply can change their religion."

Anyone who knows about the holocaust, or about the christian martyrs during roman times, or about any number of times throughout history when a religion was persecuted, can tell you that you suggestion is niave and arrogant. People are willing to kill and die for ideology that they believe.

The Real solution as I see it is to make all sectarian religious displays a private matter and outlawed in public. Especially in government, that is not to say that we do not acknowledge that religion exists and respect that each religion offers important perspectives on spirituality, but using sectarian perspectives in religion should be outlawed with regards to making public policy and law. Islam will remain a threat as long as we try to protect one religion above another, because in creating policy for one religion we open doors for policy in cases of more extreme philosophies.

Christianity, Islam, Mormonism, Jehovahs Witness, and many more are expansionist religions and will seek to further their doctrines as long as sectarian religion is a part of governmental policy. All these religions are beautiful when they are constrained to private life, but in outward displays we begin to see clashes of ideology.

To those who say that the west is failing, I call 'Hogwash', The west is still going through growing pains as the future is wide open, the law of nature is that everything will move toward equilibrium so extremism in any form cannot prevail in the long term picture. If humanity destroys itself trying to promote one ideal over another, then the future of humanity will have met its predictable end. The solution is compromise and co-operation, not conflict and domination. Islam is moving toward a huge correction because domination is only a temporary moment in history. The world will conspire against Islam as long as they seek to dominate, but that same shoe fits on any other force that seeks to dominate.

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