JemyM
Okay, now roll sanity.
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Just beware lest you slip into a similar fanaticism in your new set of beliefs. .
On the political compass I end up next to people like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Dalai Lama in beliefs of freedom and human rights. If I am fanatic, I am fanatic against fanatics, but I believe that fanaticism is cured by information, not violence or forbidding laws.
I go beyond religion. I spend alot of time learning more about the left-wing extremists, the right-wing extremists, the radical feminists, sects and cults. My interest comes from a sociological standpoint, how theese groups come to be, what ideas do they have, how are they different from eachother, and at what point do they get dangerous. Finding ways to prevent such groups from taking up numbers without resorting to violence or laws is a way to keep society in peace. It's better when fanatics are isolated, which happens if you teach about them in school. When everybody are aware of the arguments, it's also easier to take them down when they pop up or in the worst case, freeze them out and make them deviants. Deviants have little chance to cause harm on society.
Today everybody here knows the danger of nationalism. This makes people extremely critical to nationalistic behavior and racism, which is unfortunally helping radical Islam instead. When it comes to communism, our school system have been a failure and they have changed the curiccilum recently to cure this problem. I hope that the next generation wont take as easy on communism as our generation have done. Leaving such information out from the curiccilum is not only stupid, it's lethally dangerous.
Now we are facing the threat from radical Islam and I would personally like to stick the Ultra Fundamentalist Christians of the southern USA as well as the Vatican into the same group of politically dangerous religions (the vatican is the main villian between the genocidal stupidity going on in Africa). I also see a problem with different ideologies that do not mix and are likely to go to war unless they agree that they are actually the same people to begin with, only divided by ancient ideas. A muslim apostate and I are essentially on an equal ground, it does not matter what our past ideas about the world used to be. That's an equal ground in which a moderate muslim and moderate christian will never be able to stand on for a long time.
Beyond that I support gay rights, woman rights, the rights of autistic and epileptic children and the rights of several other minorities which the dogma "disagree" with, and I only see one solution which is learning more and spreading information that religion are unnatural ideas while the things it opposes are natural and should be accepted.
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