"when will we start excluding an entire religion from our nation because a promille of a promille of a promille of them have committed terrorist acts in the West"
Fuck this clown.
I'm sure the families of the deceased will be very heartened to know that "Not all..."™
I'm sure you care about the deceased and their families past making a pointless jab.
This thread managed all of two responses before it reverted to the script of "herp-a-derp irrelevant stuff about neonazis and donald trump". Not a...whole lot of sympathy for the victims in the posts above mine.
As it turns out, people exist outside the context of this thread. I know enough about most of the people posting here that I don't have cause to doubt what they feel about this. That this is a tragedy is, to most of us, an obvious background fact that doesn't need stating, so understandably the conversation can move to other aspects.
You, on the other hand... I don't know how you feel about the LGBT community. Maybe you're gay. Maybe you have several trans friends. Or maybe you don't. Like I said, I don't know you.
Well I certainly respect them enough not to throw them under the bus by launching into a slavish defence of a religion that teaches they should all be put to death.
Well
1. http://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-13.htm
2. The reason we're talking about the long term impact is because it's pointless to discuss how this is bad. So instead of just saying "This is bad and makes me sad" (it is and does) we talk about the broader and more significant cultural and political impact of the event.
3. You yourself are appose doing to gay marriage and think it will lead to pedophilia, so I have trouble thinking you seriously care about gay people.
Edit: TBH responding was a bad idea.
1. Yes. Christianity is just as backward (more on this later)
2. No, you just don't want to address the fact that the murderer is from a group you (meaning progressives) consistently cuddle up to and use all manner of deflection and fallacious nonsense to absolve them when one of their number does something heinous.
3. Bollocks. I actually support same-sex marriage, if you're referencing what I think you're referencing, it was a wider point about progressive activism.
On the christian thing...imagine this same action but let's change the flavour of the Abrhamism and say it was done by a christian (let's say Brian Fischer, just for the sake of imagery). He's a hateful fuckwit and viciously homophobic due to the teachings of his religion.
Would you all hop into this thread with niceties like "only a tiny fraction of christians are homicidal maniacs", "surely not ALL christians are like that", "he's not a true
scotsman christian anyway", "this has nothing to do with religion" etc etc?
Of course fucking not. So just because this lunatic is from the beards and suicide vests end of the Abrahamic spectrum, you've decided you need to stick up for others who share his ideology.