Why Muslims are Peaceful

So we see overwhelming support for sharia law, amputations, whippings, killing of apostates etc. In the Muslim world. Source: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-overview/

What do we make of this? Does this make Muslims as bad people?

My view is this. People can be opposed to heinous things while being completely moral on other things. For example, your mom could have some anger issues. She might throw temper tantrums and throw all your toys away when you were a kid.

Or your dad who likes to get drunk and curse all the time, flipping tables and chairs.

However, look at all the times they have done nice things to you. Buying you nice toys, hugging you, built new clothes etc.

Hitler for instance, was a nice family man.

So here’s the drill. Muslims can and will support sharia law, stoning of adulterers, killing apostates. That doesn’t mean they can’t be nice in other areas. I mean think about it. Why can’t you support sharia law and still be a good neighbour?

 

UPDATED: Homosexuality is Genetic, but It’s Still a Choice

Homosexuality is genetic in the sense that it is caused by epigenetics. Quote from Wikipedia.

“Epigenetics…is the study, in the field of genetics, of cellular and physiological phenotypic trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by changes in the DNA sequence.”

However, homosexuality is not genetic in the sense that homosexuals are born with the “gay” gene.

One of the factors that can change genes is the power of the mind.

The mind can change genes. I know that sounds crazy at first, but here’s my source. It’s from Scientific American.

I’ll lay out my own theory on how straight people become homosexuals.

Have you ever wondered why straight people are sort of “attracted” to the same sex? Let me explain.

I’m straight, however, when I see a billboard promoting men’s perfume with a male model. I see that guy as an attractive man.

Women’s sexuality is quite different than a man’s. Have you ever wondered why women like to comment on other women’s beauty like when they’re watching a show or something. Men are averse to that sort of thing, men don’t comment on other men’s handsomeness.

For someone to self-identify as a homosexual. I think there are stages.

Firstly, straight people are already “attracted” to the same sex as I said before.

In the second stage, people sort of want to figure out their sexuality. They see people from their own sex. They try to make them look attractive to them. This is the stage where the mind kicks in and changes the person’s genes. Whether it be epigenetical changes or normal gene changes. (I lean that it’s just epigenetical changes though.)

In the third stage, this is where straight people find it easier and easier to be attracted to the same sex. My theory is that homosexuality is like drugs, the first time is hard. The second time is easier, the third even easier, and so on.

Well, you could ask, shouldn’t gays be bisexuals instead? Well, stats show that bisexual people are less open to admit their bisexuality than homosexuals.

I also think the percentage of homosexuals in Non-Western countries is lower than Western countries.

There is actually a “Gay Agenda” going on before all the bluster of gay pride we see today.

Homosexuality is normalized in Western countries, so that is why I think there is less homosexuals percentage wise in Non-Western nations.

This could also explain why there seems to be less homosexuals historically.

For more info on the power of the mind, check this out. http://youtu.be/oBsI_ay8K70?list=PL1mr9ZTZb3TX_4LthrdGqACsqIWKd2gs-

And here’s a good resource in defence of traditional marriage. Note that I don’t agree with everything in there. Especially his exegesis. https://youtu.be/iNBwDxCQwGk

Update: I found this article on the “fluidity” of female sexuality. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/theologyintheraw/2016/03/sexual-fluidity-understanding-womens-love-and-desire/

UPDATED: Secular Countries are Prosperous because of Religion

Months ago, I tweeted this out, “The richer the country the less religious they are. Matt 19:24 However it was #Christianity that brought them there. #apologetics #atheism”

Quote from this article. “Phil Zuckerman, a sociology professor at Pitzer College offered another way to view it, saying that the economic advantages make those in wealthy nations less prone to misfortune and therefore less reliant on religion.”

I say that religion brought on prosperity, when prosperity came, people forgot religion.

There are several outliers in secular countries that buck that trend. For example, North Korea, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Hungary. Source: http://www.kirainet.com/english/the-least-religious-countries/

Atheism in these countries may be different than say, American atheism, but this is to show that atheism and prosperity do not correlate.

There was a Facebook group a while back in the Czech Republic that wanted to ban Christianity. It got only a few hundred likes. Obviously Czechs don’t really care about religion. Imagine if it was an American group, it would get at least a few thousand likes.

Most secular countries have to thank religion for their success. That includes the East Asian countries. Their morality, work ethic etc. is conceptualised by Eastern religions like Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Not to mention that even though Chtistianity is on the rise in those countries, their prosperity is still at worst stagnating, at best, going up. Could Christianity have a hand in that?

Religion to Easterners are different than Westerners. Not only are most Eastern religions philosophies, but most Easterners don’t know major tenets of their own religion. Ask an Easterner to quote their own holy text, they can’t. It’s this ignorance that I believe is holding them from achieving more prosperity. As religion correlates with education and happiness. Sources: http://theatheistreligion.net/2015/10/18/education/

Then you have the so-called secular states with historically Christian roots like the Nordic countries. Pre-Christian morality in pagan Europe was very different to what we have today. They didn’t even believe in the golden rule. They raped, pillaged and steal. The Romans threw babies into the wild. Also, according to the Alfred North Whitehead thesis, Christianity created the scientific method. Source: https://youtu.be/dgESPmh-TxY

Christianity had a bit part role in capitalism too. Max Weber in “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” argues that Protestantism and Calvinistic principles gave rise to capitalism in Northern Europe. Eastern scholars have attributed Christianity has the most important factor in the rise of the West. Source: http://theatheistreligion.net/2015/09/20/how-capitalism-made-northern-europe/

Historically, secularism had to borrow religion to be prosperous. The French Revolution was a great example of pure secularism failing spectacularly. Even the Enlightenment had to borrow religion’s morality.

I’ll have to say the greatest achievement of the Enlightenment was the creation of the United States. However, the US was actually founded on religious and Enlightenment principles. Source: http://theatheistreligion.net/2015/09/07/separation-of-church-and-state/

I think the same logic applies to US states.

Bottom line is secularism did not gave rise to the prosperity of nations.

Update: I found this documentary. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzM_Y0cYJA

Part 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uIBkv7pU9Eo