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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by PivotTechno
... but praying 5 times a day smacks of rigidity and could easily denote someone who's taking things to an extreme. |
Blanket generalizations are awesome. Keep it up.  |
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| srussell0018 |
Round and round we go on the circular logic carousel.
Praying 5 times a day could possibly make someone an extremist.
Only an extremist would bomb innocent people.
Praying must have made him an extremist. |
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| PivotTechno |
| Reading comprehension ftw - I never said praying 5 times a day made him an extremist. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by PivotTechno
Reading comprehension ftw - I never said praying 5 times a day made him an extremist. |
No, but you said...
| quote: | Originally posted by PivotTechno
... praying 5 times a day smacks of rigidity and could easily denote someone who's taking things to an extreme. |
... which is you saying that anybody who prays five times per day has a predisposition for extremism. That's how it reads. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Far from me to muster any defense of Islam, but observing Salah is no more an implication of rigidity than a Christian going to church on Sundays.
But yes, his perverse views of religion and his place in the world were no doubt contributing factors to do such a thing. |
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| srussell0018 |
| My Grandparents go to mass every day. I guess it's any day now that I'll hear about them blowing up a Protestant church in Northern Ireland. |
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| PivotTechno |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Blanket generalizations are awesome. Keep it up. |
Hey, if the shoe fits - there are a lot of people out there who are desperately seeking to belong or fit in, who become indoctrinated into various religions and become fanatics as a result. Hell, I've witnessed newly-found Buddhists who exhibit polar opposite behaviour to what's prescribed, as they're too caught up in adhering to principles to realise they've swung the pendulum to an extreme. |
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| idoru |
| I'm telling the FBI on them, srussell. I don't trust them now. Shady folk. |
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| srussell0018 |
| They're white though, it's okay. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by srussell0018
They're white though, it's okay. |
No. If we're going to keep on making blanket generalizations, then I must assume that because your elderly white grandparents attend Catholic mass daily, that they're racist, Republican, homophobic, anti-choice s. THEM. :mad: |
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| PivotTechno |
| That's my speculation for the month. Time to go speculumate instead. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by PivotTechno
Hey, if the shoe fits - there are a lot of people out there who are desperately seeking to belong or fit in, who become indoctrinated into various religions and become fanatics as a result. Hell, I've witnessed newly-found Buddhists who exhibit polar opposite behaviour to what's prescribed, as they're too caught up in adhering to principles to realise they've swung the pendulum to an extreme. |
You realize that the number of people turned to extremism when looking for a religion to help them "fit in" or "belong" pales in comparison to the number of those who benefit positively from said religion, right? |
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