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Surely not the attitude of the whole nation, but if even just 1% of the population is stupid enough to burn embassies because of a cartoon, then we have a serious problem that needs taking care of. Of course, seeing the consequences of the boycott on Danish products, we can be sure the...

No, freedom to express my opinions (yes, which entails other people's freedom to attack them). I can have either a good or a bad opinion about anything, and it's my right to choose what I think. Are you implying Muslims are liars too? Oh! What a mindless generalization! Do you mean the reality...

No there isn't. Being able to be "disrespectful" is a basic tenet of freedom. Err.. Muslims said it. At the day the majority in "the west" will ignore reality for the sake of political correctness, I'll say that the western world has come to the end.

Two things to take into consideration: -Atheism is highly correlated with societal health (not the cause, but the consequence), this is quite obvious when comparing atheism rates and life quality between countries (with the only exceptions being Vietnam and Ireland). Since the world's most...

This attempt at sarcasm is both an Appeal to Popularity fallacy and misleading (not to say probably untrue).

I doubt an opinion poll on this matter has already been taken, but I think the "minority" you speak of is actually the majority (considering Islamic countries).

I would think all the millions of Muslims living in Islamic countries are more representative than just a German minority being restrained by secular laws. This is a reply to what exactly, Sabro? I don't remember quoting your post or believing in your "sarcasm".

I agree. With all my non-existing respect, the Muslim world is seriously in need of some modernizing and a reality check. It's becoming impossible for a increasingly secular society to coexist with this kind of middle age attitude.

The irony in this story is that doing this Muslims just confirm every bad stereotype people have about them. Very counter-effective...

Sensuikan San, the majority of bible editions are not translated literally, figurative language is also taken into account. You can be sure that even whe reading an English version you'll get exactly what the author wanted to say. Figurative language has nothing to do with interpretation when...

Ok, so how would you interpret "and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all"? Its meaning is quite straightforward for anyone, unless you already have a preconceived idea of what you want the meaning to be. Not a very honest approach to say the least.

Yes, the wasps and murders and rapists may have to disagree, unless they didn't exist in the first place. And I don't think natural disasters would be able to disagree or agree with anything to begin with.

- I said perfect or the work of a perfect being. - Your definition of "perfect" would require a perfect balance between "good and evil"; that is, the proportion would need to be ideal and unchanging. Afaik, this concept is not a part of Christianity (even if it is, I don't buy it).

Non sequitur. But do you claim the Earth to be perfect or to be the work of a perfect being? I'm pretty sure you do understand why wasps are here, and that the answer to both questions is "no". Therefore, I don't see how this could work as a analogy for Sabros' view.

That kind of approach is fine, I agree. The problem ,though, is that you are making things personal unnecessarily. When you do that your argument does become a strawmen attack, since you're trying to apply criticism of fundamentalist christianity on people who obviously are not fundamentalists...

SVF, I do agree that the term "christian" has become exceedingly vague these days, but still, if someone decides to ignore half of the bible and still call himself a christian, I think we should criticize only what he/she really believes, not just choose what we think is easier to debunk or any...

That's not really what I said, SVF. My "attack" was on Christianity, not on christians as a whole. Most christians don't really believe everything the bible says, I was referring more to the fundamentalist type.

You missed my point, Sabro. I'm just saying that "Christian values" are not the same for every Christian; those values depends solely on how they interpret the bible, and are not necessarily about peace and tolerance. And SVF, trying to compare Christianity with Nazism is rather ridiculous. The...

Can you really make such a huge generalization about a group with over a billion adherents, Sabro? Have you visited every church to know that they all teach tolerance, love, and forgiveness? I can come up with many examples that would not fit with your generalization, actually, I think most of...

He did? Prove it. He did? Prove it. Sorry, Kara_Nari, but you need to build your argument on a little more valid premises.