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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I'm not sure why you just can't say where the real problem is and instead try to spread the blame around and speak in moral realvistic terms.
Orthodoxy is not a problem in itself.
The Amish have been rather peaceful if I recall.
The Greek Orthodox haven't made a peep in quite a while.
Fundamentalist Christians may state their opinions and vote with those ideas. The abortion clinic bombings were an aberration and the last murder was over 10 years ago. Since abortion was made legal in the united states there have been 7 murders directly tied to it. Hardly an 'impressive' showing for a group that numbers in the millions in the US alone and would point to the violence as being due to a very small minority.
Can't recall the last attack by a Mormon.
Well we could go on, but it is the culture, inspired in part by a religion that does not oppose violence to those who do not submit to the will of Allah, which we will be forced to fight. If Orthodoxy was the problem we should be having these wars and conflicts all over the place, but we don't.
Have Christians and Buddhists, and Shintoist, and Pagans, etc done bad things in the past? Sure, but who cares, this is the worlds current problem, this is what must be dealt with now, and the stakes are as high as they ever were. This is the same war we have been fighting since the first Arab invasions of the West and India starting around 600 C.E. The West seems to get ‘blamed’ for the Crusades, yet who invaded who first? We have changed, they have not.
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Perhaps you should have read to the end of my statement.
Yes, most who are orthodox in their thinking do not lash out. Doesn't change the fact that I think they are wrong-headed.
The second part, that you seem to have over-looked, is that those who would impose their orthodox views upon other are a larger problem.
In other words, I agree with your assesment (in general) that the culture of that part of the world lends itself to bringing on these sorts of protest and these sorts of responses.
Where I tend to disagree with you is in your universal condemnation that completely ignores the millions who do not engage in these horrible practices.