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Thanks for that report from inside ignorance
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Argumentum Ad Hominem. You're describing one's self righteous actions; not the philosophy itself.
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You can't have actions like this without a philosophy to motivate them. Besides aren't you doing the same thing? You speak of religion as if all religious people believe the exact same things. That is actually not the case.
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True; and this also doesn't refute my argument at all. Having a crutch replace another crutch doesn't mean the first crutch isn't a crutch.
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You miss the point. Crutches are natural for people who need them. The fact that some people use religion as a crutch is irrelevant. If it weren't religion it woud be something else. What is your crutch?
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They're examples. Point out the one-sided inaccurate generalizations.
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Well, you're pal basically says all religion is the same.
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Fight the unknown, fight the mysterious, fight the new. Snuff out that candle in the dark so you don't have to see the frightful monsters and demons that await you in your journeys, close your eyes and cover your ears, get in a corner and hope to God it'll pass. Burn the books, burn the heretics, burn the Jews the Blacks the Atheists and the Witches. Burn it all. Cower in the corner.
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He even brings up how religion encourages people to "burn the jews". I'm sure most jews would find it ironic that their religion is supposedly telling them to burn themselves. Think of religion as having many different variations because it does. Now think of your buddy only looking at the worst of these variations. Seems innacurate and one-sided to me. You might also be surprised that many witches also practice a form of religion called wicca. Maybe they burned themselves at the incitement of this broad word "religion" that you just throw around.