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Old 08-05-2010, 03:13 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Donnageddon View Post
But it can provide a "socially acceptable" unjustifiable pretense for unjustifiable actions.
No, religious extremism is not "socially acceptable" to the mainstream of society and it won't ever be unless the majority become extremists - but then, by definition, they won't be "extreme".

What religion does, is allow people to justify their own irrationality, that's it. They chose to interpret a religions teachings in a way that bolsters the biases that they already are inclined to have and ignore those things that don't.

But if religion weren't there, people would use something else. Just look at the Stalin years in Russia; all sorts of atrocities were justified by all sorts of people without religion entering into the equation.
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