On perceptions of religions
Jul. 14th, 2005 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythY'know, somehow I doubt most of the people who look at the Muslim world today, and try and place the blame on Islam would place the blame for how much most of Europe sucked during the Dark Ages on Christianity.
Not to say that the current varieties of religion in either case can't be part of the problem, but there's a lot more screwed up in the Middle East than religion. And there was a lot more screwed up in Dark Ages Europe besides the Catholic church.
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Not to say that the current varieties of religion in either case can't be part of the problem, but there's a lot more screwed up in the Middle East than religion. And there was a lot more screwed up in Dark Ages Europe besides the Catholic church.
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Date: 2005-07-14 01:49 pm (UTC)Oh, and according to research I heard last night, very few suicide bombings are religeon based. Most of them are... let me try and remember... people who want Democratic nations to get their troops/ occupation out of countries/ places that the organisation organising the bombing want or view as theirs.
So... yeah. No big afterlife carrot driving these people on, it's the "do this for the greater good of the rest of us." thing. Huh.