When the news of this new construction was announced, I felt then that it was just a question of time until another incident like this occurred:Three people have been killed in an attack on a Turkish publishing house which prints Bibles and Christian literature, according to media reports. CNN Turk television said the victims' throats had been cut and that police had detained six people in connection with the incident on Wednesday at the Zirve publishing house in
What puzzles me is how these things seem to recur, for example in Indonesia, Thailand, Algeria, India and Holland, to name but a few. Before one blames a certain religion for this, it cuts both ways - Srebrenica, Kathankudy and so on.
And what possesses someone to blow up 178 people in market places? Why do such things happen in these sorts of places but usually not in
Is it religion, mental illness, modern society's dearth of values, what?
James: you're don't blame religion it cuts both ways is flawed.
ReplyDeleteNeither of the terrorist acts (or war crims in the serb case) were the act of a religious movement.
So therefore, by my your own reasoning, my argument was not flawed.
ReplyDeleteif you had said to not blame religion per se, then yes.
ReplyDeleteYou said not to blame ONE religion because it cut both ways (implying that the other strikes were from a different RELIGION).
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Lord Nazh - no implication intended. Only the statement as is. Any implication, if any, was that there were other atrocities other than religious.
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