Mike, I'd say there are people who for any number of reasons want to do bad things and some justify their actions with religion.
As we've discussed before I think the only difference between today's Muslim extremists and Christian extremists is about 150 years; and maybe 50 or less for Jewish extremists. And of course the real severe extremists are alive and well in all of these religions - and evidently Buddhism too. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], uerusuboyo@... wrote: > > Bill!,<br/><br/>Ok, so you've narrowed my 'all religions are not the same' to > just the three mono-theistic ones. Fair enough, but does that you mean you > agree that those other religions I mentioned are nothing like Islam regarding > messages of hate and violence?<br/><br/>Comparing those 3 Abrahamic still > leaves Islam in the same position of being the most overtly violent. There > was no new Messiah in the Koran to at least make the stories of killing > infidels (and other transgressors) questionable (as with Jesus and the Old > Testament). In fact, the Koran doesn't compare to the Bible because most of > the verses are open-ended and aren't tied to any particular historical story. > Whereas you and Merle say it's bad people that use the religion as an excuse > - I'd say its just as likely that good people are swayed by bad > ideology.<br/><br/>Mike<br/><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
