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Originally Posted by Xanafax  I am not attacking you Thoughtaddict. I am attacking the belief system you follow. |
You separate the two, as though telling me that I believe in wife-beating, child-mutilating, and law-defying is less insulting.
I live my beliefs. So your prejudice is not about some small isolated part of me. It is about all of me. It is about how I look at the sun as it rises, how I think of the air I breathe, how I act toward the world. If you really think my "belief system" is full of wife-beating, child-mutilating, and law-defying, you should ask why it does not show in my actions.
And yes, I am still quite insulted.
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When you look at all the horrors commited in the name of Islam, the forcing of Sharia Law, the banning of criticism at the UN, the sick and twisted punishments thought up by patriarchal bigots who fear individuality, how can you possibly - as a conscious human being - follow such a barbaric and medievil philosophy?
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See, cuz that isn't Islam.
When you see all the evil committed in this world by greed, the deprivation of rights of indigenous folks, the spoiling of ecosystems, the immense poverty and human suffering when the solutions would just take a small act of kindness, the violence of man against man over material possessions, the crushing of alternative, less profitable viewpoints, how can you be a capitalist? How can you - as a
conscientious human being - follow such a barbaric and cold philosophy?
See, cuz that's not capitalism, either.
I look at Islam and I see kindness. I see devotion. I see moderation of vice and guidance for how to best wake up everyday with happiness and joy. I see the face of an old woman being helped out to her car by a younger Muslim girl. I see people giving food and inviting hungry strangers to eat. I see a community that fosters reason and enlightenment.
I look at capitalism and I see productivity. I see hard work being rewarded and dreams being fulfilled. I see efficiency and innovation. The marvels of electricity being molded to use, of miracles becoming common place, of lives being saves by new medical devices.
I could look at either and see pain, bloodshed, and violence. We are not so superior to ourselves to have ascended beyond negative emotions and negative actions. Whether Jew or Muslim or Christian or atheist, none of us holds a monopoly on enlightenment.
So you ask how I could follow the barbarism you see. I question your vision. That decay you see is your decay. That violence you see is your violence. And before you deign to insult me and the beliefs that drive my life again, I ask you to check your vision, and see if perhaps you're judging an entire puzzle by a myopic stare at a single piece.
Two men looked out through prison bars. One saw mud; the other saw stars.