PlanetWarrior
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Killing folks for a silly reason such as not knowning how to pray is barbaric, and can never be compared with the American revolt or the French.
Yes indeed. To you and I it is barbaric. Let's not forget the early stages of Christianity also had people killed for amongst others the reason being that they could either not quote scripture or pray properly. If people purely stood back and claimed that these were "barbarian or savages" then I believe that Christianity wouldn't have evolved into the generally tolerant religion which it is today. Likewise with democracy. The early founding fathers of modern day democracy were the French revolutionaries. I don't believe that they achieved democracy in France by hosting civilized discussion with King Louis and his nobility or even the French people themselves. Democracy like Christianity evolved since then after people stood up by admitting that there were wrongs in the system and addressed those wrongs, not by people labeling the Christian founders or the revolutionary democrats "barbarians or savages". Who knows, perhaps these people do have grievances with whatever system they are fighting be it the west or the middle east or Islam or some hoodoo voodoo system they are up in arms over. The question which I am posing is simply...what are people doing to address their grievances whether their qualms are legitimate, logical or not. Just labeling them savages and barbarians will not make the problem disappear. I'm certain that you will agree with me on that ?