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Originally Posted by Kelhus999
Well, whatever you called and got right, as I said before Sam Harris made his bones as a public figure by being an outspoken atheist and attacking all religion, and you only know about the Islamic criticism because that is what he got pushback for. I know you admitted you dont care and you aren't too interested in the facts when it comes to forming your opinions, but that is the truth nonetheless.
You can point to awful passages in the Quran.
You can point to awful passages in the Bible.
Some of those awful passages in the Bible are no longer practiced in the Western world in areas where Christianity is still the major religion.
Therefore something other than the awful passages in the scripture is playing a major role.
A result of this is I think it's pretty ignorant when I hear people talking about Islam as if it's inherently more dangerous than Christianity or indeed a few other religions. If people want to call that kind of ignorance Islamophobic then I'm alright with that. But given I'm an atheist in the strong sense of the word, it would be weird to level that accusation at me that I'm not critical of Islamic doctrine. They lost me at Allah.