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Originally Posted by Jack The Rippa
Exactly, you wonder why religions have extremists (not YOU, just “you” as in a general person) it's because people need religion to be happy and live their life. So anything that tries to discredit their religion is taken as a personal attack to their humanity. That's why people who strongly believe in religion get so damn touchy about it when you ask them questions. They need faith to feel like they actually have a purpose in life. They need it for a lot of different reasons. When you can learn to be independent and not have to rely on anything but your own self to make you happy and positive, that’s when you stop living a lie, that’s when everything becomes clearer, and that’s when you become a stronger person. I believe you can still do this and have faith in religion, but if your faith is all you depend on, and you’re tricking yourself into believing it can’t possibly be wrong and have flaws, you’re never going to be free.
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no, people become extremists because they believe what they feel is true. they believe they are the "chosen ones" and everyone else is an infidel, that everyone is out to get you. that no one else can co-exist. that's a function of egologic, meaning "me vs you" and "if its not with me its agianst me". religion in at its core is ignorance, and teaches you to absorb ignorance and onesided-ism and believe you are above everyone else instead of on the same level as everyone else.
if you hate somebody or some movement or anything, and you know less about
their side of the story than you know about your side of the story, you are a fool. if all you see is your side of it you truely are a fool. you commit your self to only one side of a 3 sided story, so you really have no understanding, just an opinion. when you have one side, you have an opinion. when you have two sides, you have a fact. when you have 3 sides, you have an understanding, an acceptance and, dare i say, a peace with it.
knowlege is power. one side is ignorance.