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Mar. 16th, 2002 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaOh, oh now I remember one topic.
Today's quote of the day said something to the effect that you don't often hear about atheists or agnostics doing the nasty acts of violence like in the Middle East or India, but still somehow, people assume that people with no religion are likely to commit atrocities. While I agree with the wrongness of assuming atheists and agnostics are going to go berzerk because of no gods, somehow, I got the uncomfortable feeling the author assumes all religious people, eventually, will commit cruelities to members of other religions (or to those more tolerant than them within the religion). Maybe I am taking too personal. It is hard for me to shake the feeling that if I go ahead with this conversion thing, there will people who will lump me in the hard-liners of the world, and that is not me. It is not me anymore than the Stalinists of the 1930s were them.
Today's quote of the day said something to the effect that you don't often hear about atheists or agnostics doing the nasty acts of violence like in the Middle East or India, but still somehow, people assume that people with no religion are likely to commit atrocities. While I agree with the wrongness of assuming atheists and agnostics are going to go berzerk because of no gods, somehow, I got the uncomfortable feeling the author assumes all religious people, eventually, will commit cruelities to members of other religions (or to those more tolerant than them within the religion). Maybe I am taking too personal. It is hard for me to shake the feeling that if I go ahead with this conversion thing, there will people who will lump me in the hard-liners of the world, and that is not me. It is not me anymore than the Stalinists of the 1930s were them.
