Magic Magnum said
but Religion always tries to deny said flaws so it becomes a point that needs to be stated/debated more often because it's currently not accepted, and people will sometimes start thinking religion is flawless if no one ever bother's to highlight it.If Religion came out and said "Yes, we admit we have these flaws", then it'd be different.
Actually, religious communities argue within themselves about what is acceptable or not all the time, such as some Muslims against sharia law being combined with secular law, or being held above secular law.
They don't "apologize" for holding their beliefs because they sincerely believe they're right. Most just attempt to find some compromise to conform: Which is why I'm saying it's not a problem for this museum to change its stance to be more lenient and have a better public image for Islam. There are plenty of places for Islam's flaws to be pointed out, a court of law, or a debate--but a museum?
About a tragedy?... That is no place for a debate. That is a place for coming together and vowing to never let that happen again.
Magic Magnum said
In the same sense where say we wouldn't be needing to debate it as much if they weren't trying to remove science education, they are doing or denying actions that cause action/rebuttal to be needed.
This isn't about science education, they're not asking to remove science education here, it's irrational to even bring this up, it side tracks from the point.
Magic Magnum said
If they were more open/accepting, that wouldn't need to be the case.
Again, stop arguing about the validity of religion
about a fucking tragedy-based museum, and stop broad stroking every religious person as being close minded or ignorant. And, yes, whether you intended to or not, this is what you're doing here. I can say from personal experience one of my family friends is a pastor, it doesn't bother him that I'm an atheist, I'm welcome in his church anytime so long as I'm respectful about his religion, just as he respects my non-religion. (...Note: Okay this is weird normally I'm arguing on the opposite end of the table of religion, but oh well.
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Magic Magnum said
But if some place want's to educate on something like Islam, and not say one branch or church of Islam but rather Islam as a whole the extremist part's should not be overlooked.
Trust me. This isn't helping. There are plenty of places to learn about Islam, both the good and the bad, the enlightening and the ugly. This is not a museum about religion, it's a museum about a
tragedy--committed by extremists wearing the flag of religion. Yes, I don't like Islam either, and I don't pretend that the religion wasn't used as justification, it was, but it can just be a side note here. It doesn't need to be put up in broad lights. Everywhere else does that already.
Because remember. Anything can be used as a justification for mass murder given the opportunity. If it wasn't Islam, it would have been the
size of one's nose.
There are other places to debate about what part Islam played in this. This museum is not one of them. Let it go. Trust me. You know I wouldn't be arguing from this position unless I knew with near absolute certainty that it had to be right.
