Please don't devalue the lost lives as a set up for a snarky comment in a long running round robin here on DU. You've got to be bigger than that.

Up and down this forum the religionistas are JUST OUTRAGED that anyone could conflate their favorite fairy tales with delusions. Well in the real world religious nut jobs are murdering people by the score EVERY GODDAMN DAY. Treating religious nonsense as anything other than the nonsense it is - giving it a privileged status - is part of the problem.

Demeaned them, imo, as a set up for your closing snarky comment. "Cheap shot" was how you went about it.

and religion so I've "demeaned the victims" of religious violence. Yes. I see your point. Exactly. It sure must be swell to have such a privileged set of beliefs.

I'm embarrassed at the manipulation of the killings, brutal murders, to set up another run of the puerile bone of contention you have with other DU members.

Not insulting to me at all. Just embarrassing all around, imo. For you, me, your targets and DU. I'm tired of it all.

...and they decry how terrible it is that anyone would "play politics" with the lost lives of the massacred.

Conveniently, by definition, it will always be a "cheap shot" to point out atrocities committed in the name of religion.

Thought I could dance around that a bit. In any event, I made my comments to the OP directly. Don't want to drag this out anymore.

bringing up the daily evidence of religion inspired psychotic brutality is somehow out of bounds and a cheap shot in the ongoing discussion here regarding religion and delusion. We are surrounded, inundated with religious violence, but the mere suggestion that religious beliefs are delusions is terribly insulting and has to stop. What has to stop is our pretending that religious beliefs aren't in fact delusions. What has to stop is our insane pandering to people who profess belief in fairy tales and use those professed beliefs to justify absolute nonsense, frequently horrifying absolute nonsense. The Islamic psychotics in Anbar are just an extreme example. Closer to home we aren't chopping off the heads of infidels, we are instead justifying homophobia, putting Moses up as a "founding father" in public school textbooks, claiming that there can't be any problem with climate change because some fictional deity gave us this planet to use so nothing ever bad can happen, and yes every now and then killing people for God, just like Boko Haran does, and celebrating it on Fox and Hate Radio.

I've never understood murdering for god or killing for jesus.

There is nothing more foolish than dying for and/or killing for a religion.

many of which were and are just as brutal.

Religion is pretty much irrelevant in my opinion. People will find an excuse to do what they want to do, whether it's from the words of Mao or Marx or from some holy book.

However, I do think that some religious people might be more impressionable due to the more authoritarian nature of some interpretations, the lack of respect for science and logic in same, and the hypnotic nature of repeating prayers, chants and mantras.

Not a headline and an article dropped without comment, like a bad smell in the elevator.

what better justification can you call for when you violate the right of fellow humans to live a life in peace. Really does liberty, equality, fraternity have quite the same ring as god wills it. Does volk and fatherland have the same power and call.

They managed to work both into that goose stepping clusterfuck.

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If so, that would be the real outrage, wouldn't it?

Volleyball poisons everything.