Trying my hardest to be civil in this uncivilised world.

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  • “Religious extremism” as in “people take REALLY seriously what God considers and fear His judgment” would only be a positive thing, as it would create a self-policing community of righteous human beings. Now, I’m seeing it from a very Muslim perspective, which includes a degree of religious tolerance (“To you your system and to me is mine”, 109:6) and a core of righteousness and correct behaviour before everything (“Piousness is not facing the West or the East, but pious is one who… gives money out of love to the relatives, the needy and the orphans… and those who keep their pledges, and are patient in the face of adversity and hardship.”, 2:177). If you mean religious extremism in the “Deus Vult” crusade kinda way, or the “I gotta murder my daughter because she had sex before marriage” way, then yeah, the question starts making sense.

    So, under that paradigm, since “religious extremism” basically means “I can do X because God wants me to”, this one is more dangerous, because it allows for everything, greed included, to be rationalized.








  • In an ideological vacuum, being hopeless and a complete believer in moral relativism, what else could you have? Nothing is true, nothing is good or bad, so just get the bag and “get ahead in life”, and the only losers are those who can’t get away with it. But ask any of them what they believe in and they crumble. Meh. 😔 And you already know what I think the answer to this problem is if you checked my username, but you can’t coerce people into it, it just doesn’t work that way.

    PS. They’re basically infants (Kohlberg’s stages of moral development):