From: Terry Donaghe (terry@Donaghe.com)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 23:06:48 MDT
Isn't Islam a good bit younger than Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism?
Islam is like the teenager of world religions. It took an awful long time
for Christianity to "simmer down." Perhaps, as religions mature, their
followers get a bit more laid back. Now, obviously some Hindus and
Christians can still get rabble roused and incited to violence, but in
general their followers seem to be less raucous.
I think part of the problem is
Terry Donaghe
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From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org] On
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Subject: Re: tribal violence (was: RE: would you vote for this man?)
Ok, so Damien makes some reasonable counterpoints to my arguments
that other religious groups may be less violent than Islam.
(So my comments on who might be the most violent religious groups
may be open to significant debate.)
But *what* then is driving these people to irrational behavior?
Is it simply "salvation" in the afterlife, e.g. really gone wrong
mental programming? Social pressure? Desire for power by the leaders?
It simply does not seem rational.
It is not a trivial question as many of these groups will be
opposed to the entire extropian/transhumanistic agenda.
We are just lucky that we tend to be off of their radar at this time.
R.
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