Persecution by the religious

[shavenferret]

SvennoJ said:

shavenferret said:

There would be no Sharia law in any nation if the religion weren’t so dominant in the first place. You could make a similar argument for the Christian practice of burning witches. The fact that people try to say that others can’t be or behave a certain way, or hold certain beliefs is intolerable. 

There would still be people getting beaten, tortured, killed for being different. It doesn't come from religion, religion comes from people. 

"The fact that people try to say that others can’t be or behave a certain way, or hold certain beliefs is intolerable."
Fully agreed, but change starts at home, not by pointing fingers at outliers far away. That only encourages hatred while overlooking problems you can make a change in. Pointing fingers doesn't solve anything.

Change should occur all over the world, not just at home. 
That’s an incredible amount of weakness that I’m reading.  People would be killed for being different? It seems like the only intolerance that we have for being different is the lbgtq community. 

I know of no other groups that are persecuted nowadays. And if the hatred doesn’t ultimately come from religion, where would it originate then? I mean, religion has been the only thing that has told us that gay people are wrong. 
I live in the Bible Belt and acceptance is getting better but we have a long way to go unfortunately. 

Finally, i'll simply say that people are people and whether I criticize someone in my own nation or another doesn't matter.  But I understand if your morals make you think differently, and that is just fine.  

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