Comments on Don’t blame religion by Theo Hobson 15/08/05
It is not the belief in an afterlife that is the problem, it is the absolute belief in God, the Fuhrer or the working class or whatever else. Once you have that belief it is a short step to being willing to kill those who are not part of the group.
George Bush’s ‘if you are not with us you are against us’ attitude is the basis of all religious violence and oppression through the ages.
The current spate of Islamic violence is not an odd aberration. This is what the religious do, and have done, for thousands of years.
Jeff Tyler
What a load of waffle! Surely the author, as a self-confessed liberal Christian, is mature enough to admit that, given as he says there are many strands and degrees of belief in each faith, there are extremists in each who are liable to do unpleasant things in search of the promised afterlife which they DO believe literally.
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