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« on: July 02, 2010, 03:56:59 PM »

It's not like Islam is the only religion which has killed people before.

Religions don't kill people.  People kill people.

And rats.  And fires.  And bacteria and stuff like that.  Maybe the hallucinogenic peyote button you ate in order to get a better vision of the gods was an overdose, causing brain aneurysm or acute myocardial infarction.  Maybe that kills you.  But it isn't the religion itself that kills you.

I didn't think you were one to fall for cheap slogans, angus, even effective ones. Sure, religion doesn't kill people, but that doesn't mean that people haven't been killed that would not have been killed had it not been for this or that religion. Nor that some people lived that would not have lived had it been for this or that religion. Human behavior is subject to all sorts of variables, and just because it's very difficult for social science to parse them out (especially for something as ill-defined and ubiquitous as Islam), it does not mean it has no effect.
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