Thanks for the legwork! The Pew was particularly interesting. I searched the word "death" and got a nuanced but mostly unsettling picture right away. At the moment it seems to me that religion has been converted (ha) by cunts into ideology, and doesn't
necessarily condemn (ha) religion itself. "Necessarily," although it's obvious religion is a particularly useful tool for achieving ideological ends.
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Frankly, I think ten is a disturbingly high number,
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10%? try 64%
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Actually, I meant ten people, and I'm sort of serious. There were cultures 2500 years ago more enlightened (and the Enlightenment hadn't even happened).
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too many people seem to want to excuse this barbarism. as if the satirists had it coming because they were racist.
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Is that really going around? "It's sad, sure, but..."
The ghost of Christopher Hitchens haunts me, and I'm actually a bit militant on the issue of ending this shit. More important than bullets, it would be nice to see some attempt to win over the next generation, which is the
only way to win.
I only object to the one-dimensional portrait of a billion people. Also, religious expression is a recognized human right and talk of wiping it from the earth makes me queasy.