[FoRK] 16 year old girl "Peace and Love"d to Death over Hijab

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 9:03 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:

> Tut, tut, Aaron. Don't you realize that *every* evil act committed  
> by a religious person *must* be because of their religion, whereas  
> any good act done by a religious person is to due to social and  
> cultural factors?

This is an interesting new tactic being adopted by religious  
apologists in response to encountering a confrontational attitude on  
the part of the non-religious.  Of course it's totally bogus, a combo  
stereotype assassination with a very concise extrapolation explosion  
lurking in its heart.

As for "Hannah and the hijab" --- in that religion / culture there is  
no distinction between religion and culture, or religion and  
politics, etc. ad nauseam.    That's part of what makes that strain  
so absolutely dangerous.  It is the Ebola of religious diseases.

> Yeah, that's the real tragedy.  I fear we both (religious and  
> secular alike) are so busy blaming each other for the problems of  
> the world we don't have any time left to solve them...

The trouble is, Dr. Ernie, that YOUR TEAM (meaning without reference  
to subtype "the religious" --- note to reader that Dr. Ernie has  
drawn this distinction first, not me) has spent thousands of years  
(indeed, much of history is *about* this activity) blaming "each  
other" (different subtypes) for the problems of the world, and trying  
to "solve" said problems by eliminating each other.  And you haven't  
let up on that one bit, that has so far been THE backstory for the  
20th century.  Furthermore, you don't really believe that there's any  
risk in hastening any sort of "end of the world" type existential  
issues, since your gods have already assured you that's happening  
anyway.  As far as blaming your team for the problems of the world  
--- I'll assert instead that many of your team's activity's COMPRISE  
the "problems of the world."  Clearly, your team in general has no  
interest in solving any problems whatsoever.

:-( indeed.


jb