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All of this sounds like blaming the wrong thing. Let's blame Islam for violent Muslims. So let's also blame Christianity for violent Christians.
We still are way overdue rewriting the Bible after the Crusades. At least it will give us a chance to correct all the errors and inconsistencies.
The problem isn't with Islam of Christianity; it's with religion more generally, and with culture/society more broadly.
Changing books won't change much regarding issues of violence. It's not the book that makes people violent.
It's ignorance and delusion.
And the idea of forbidding Islam/the Koran is ridiculous. If you're going to essentially ban one religion, why not ban them all? Only then will you actually foment change. Though I'm not sure this is a route I'd like for us to go.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 07-11-2011 at 04:51 AM..
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