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Related: About this forum2014 Was An Unsettling Year, And Religion Played A Starring Role
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/30/2014-year-in-religion_n_6343142.htmlReligion News Service | By Kevin Eckstrom
Posted: 12/30/2014 8:46 am EST Updated: 1 hour ago
(RNS) For most of recorded history, Isis was an Egyptian goddess, a benevolent type who cared for widows and orphans, cured the sick and even brought the dead back to life.
This year, the world met the other ISIS.
The rise of the so-called Islamic State, variously known as ISIS or ISIL, dominated headlines in 2014 as a self-proclaimed caliphate sowed death and destruction across Iraq and Syria. For some, the group confirmed their worst fears about Muslim extremists, bent on killing religious minorities and subjugating women in a quest for domination that included leveling villages and beheading hostages.
The terror wrought by the Islamic State reflected a sense of turbulence that upended international news in 2014. But it was not the only source of unrest. The Ebola virus in west Africa put the world on edge, and a bloody war between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza, kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria and the slaughter of more than 100 children at a military school in Pakistan added to the mix.
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2014 Was An Unsettling Year, And Religion Played A Starring Role (Original Post)
cbayer
Dec 2014
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trotsky
(49,533 posts)1. That's odd.
Lots of people here said that ISIS/ISIL had nothing to do with religion at all, and here it is featured as "starring" in religious news.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)2. That's called "talking out of both sides of your mouth".
Also known as rank hypocrisy.
Some seem curiously immune to both.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)3. The Ebola epidemic wouldn't have been a problem as a religious matter
if not for the 'This is the fault of teh gays!' rhetoric spouted by vicious religious 'leaders'.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)4. Not to mention the religious rituals that involved handling the corpses of victims. n/t