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Monday, March 23, 2015

Faith and the Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Faith is belief without evidence and a particular consequence of this is ‘anything can be justified’, since ‘faith’ cannot be discussed or challenged in a logical way. Faith easily leads to justifying evil acts. The jihadists that commit terrorist atrocities, killing and maiming indiscriminately, do it because they believe through their faith that they are right.
The reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre by the liberal religious apologists is to misrepresent what happened by describing it as nothing to do with Islam or heartfelt religious conviction. They insist it is caused by nationalism, capitalism, the oppression of minorities or the racism of ‘white people’. There is absolutely no doubt that any one of these is a contributing factor, but the overriding reason is their faith and its shaky precepts. The gunmen confirmed this with their shouts of ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is great) as they ran from the scene. 
It is only the truly demented that celebrate the association between acts of barbarity and the greatness of their imaginary God.
Through misunderstanding the terrorist's motives, the liberal religious apologists are playing to the hand of the Islamic terrorists. They are indeed fodder for the savage’s feast.

The excellent Sam Harris podcast goo.gl/2q5oy8  was the inspiration for this blog.

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