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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
I'm not sure everyone is reading it that way, since it was a comparison of people who kill because they claim that their religion tells them to...the scope is irrelevant to such a comparison -- in fact, of the four people talking about this right now, you're the only one who read it that way. I know it's Riot, so a question of giving her the benefit of the doubt is entirely out of the question by default, but it seems like a bit of a stretch to take the words she wrote and extend them into the argument you claim those words were making.
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to be honest I dont care if people use religion or not as their excuse. Stalin as far as I know wasnt using religion as his excuse, Hitler either, eventhough he used that as propaganda. All the same to me. People get all fanatical about their books and what people in robes tell them.. so it makes sense that a lot of violence is centered around these religions.
Of course the KKK example a down play. Right now the biggest threat on this earth to our well being is Radical Muslims. They are a larger and scarier brand of terrorists than KKK members of 50 years ago, but I think the mind set is all similar.