Tony L
Administrator
You can justify violence and the taking of life, and you can justify the sanctity of life. But you can’t justify both at the same time.
Religious fundamentalism can justify absolutely anything at any time. Logic need not apply. Any position you could possibly want, no matter how kind, compassionate, left-wing and equality-seeking, or murderously brutal, racist, sexist oppressive and violent, can be found in there.
I’ve mentioned before before my ‘godfather’ was a monk. The type that abandoned all worldly possessions and spent his life trying to make his community a far safer kinder place. Anyone was welcome, they provided a safe place to stay for anyone who needed it. It was pretty much Christian communism in a small scale theoretical way without the inevitable problems of scaling that model up. I’m an atheist but I hugely respected him and his peers (there were about six if them IIRC). He was a kind and honest bloke with none of the hypocrisy and authoritarianism I associate with most religion. He read exactly the same bible as fascist propagandists like Ben Shapiro or any of the multi-millionaire US hate preachers with their huge fire and brimstone arena church scams. It is all in there and it appears Islam is just the same. Religion can always be used as a tool of fascism.