I did this for years & had a lot of allies tho many have given up now. Some haven't & they're the ones who still talk to me!
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Think how you'd act if what they believed was true and then realise that they think it is. Put yourself in someone else's place.
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I find it easy because I was someone who believed literally in religious texts but its easy to do thought experiment. Imagine its true.
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It is literally true that the God of this holy text exists & wrote down what he wanted for humanity & controls your eternity. What do u do?
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My imagination is really not good enough for God images. My brain automatically squashes it.I never believed in gods as a kid..they tried..
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You're one of those natural sceptics? I envy you. Michael Shermer's Believing Brain offers some hypotheses for why some people are.
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But it might make it hard for you to understand how belief in a set of ideas can dominate ethical thinking.
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Hm. Yet it's easy for me to differentiate between a radical idea and the original ideology it claims itself to be. Why?
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I don't know. What are ISIS doing that is not in the Quran?
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"Act" is a tricky word here. I know enough muslim families to safely say that they are being bashed for something they don't even relate to.
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And you know this because they say so? Why believe the Muslims who say they believe nice things & not the ones who say they believe nasty?
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Because i see them peacefully practicing.I talk with them everyday and they live a life like you and I. They may think&dress differently.
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So you believe the evidence of what they say and do. Can you not do the same with the millions who say & do illiberal, oppressive things?
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Who are those precisely?
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Do you need me to post the Pew stats on Muslim belief around the world?pic.twitter.com/XQB7QpAK43
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No..I'm sticking to my original intention of trying to separate feminism from whatever twisted version is trying to hijack it to radicalise
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