I will say to you what I said to Nani as well. Rephrasing a thought I have heard elsewhere: "There are good people who do good things. And there are bad people who do bad things. But in order to have an otherwise good person do bad things, you need religion".
This does not tally with my experience, the nearest counterexample being Panookah, who isn't religious but supports this act. It seems that it really doesn't take religion to make an otherwise good person do bad things. Incidentally, I am religious but deplore the incident. Can I please ask what you think of this?
People can have different perceptions of things and therefore different points of view and consequently different approaches to one and the same event or idea. Let's not judge anybody based on what they say but what they do.
Could you elaborate about your question - what I think about what. About your religiousness, about you deploring this incident, or about a non-religious person supporting that incident?
I personally do not agree 100% with that proverb, but I felt that I had to mention it.
I was primarily asking for your comment on the fact of a non-religious person supporting that incident, the example in this case being Panookah (unlike you he doesn't consider what the pastor did to be bad, and disapproves of criticism of the pastor), as it seemed to run counter to your quote. I would have also liked your thoughts on the fact of a religious person like me deploring the same incident, which would further weaken the case for a causal relationship between religion and fanaticism. However, since you clarified that you do not agree 100% with the proverb (but rather in a restricted sense), I think I get your general purport and wouldn't take issue with it.
But a bit more seriously now. Freedom of being an asshole is a right, yes. As well as the freedom to bear the consequences of it. Its not like he didnt know what the consequences of his exercising his freedom of being an asshole would be. (In case he didnt, then he was not just an asshole, but an ignorant asshole).
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"There are good people who do good things. And there are bad people who do bad things. But in order to have an otherwise good person do bad things, you need religion".
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Could you elaborate about your question - what I think about what. About your religiousness, about you deploring this incident, or about a non-religious person supporting that incident?
I personally do not agree 100% with that proverb, but I felt that I had to mention it.
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