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Slovak Police Planted Explosives On Air Travelers
Entropy98 writes "Slovakian Police have planted explosives on 8 unsuspecting air travelers. Seven were stopped by airport security, including one man arrested and held upon arriving at a Dublin airport. Unbelievably, one innocent traveler made it home with 90 grams of explosives, and had his flat surrounded by the police and bomb squad."
He was shot because he was a brown man in a white man's country. Running or not, there's no way an unarmed white brit gets shot just because he is running from police.
>Generally speaking, people who commit violent acts in the name of religion are ignoring the teachings of the religion they claim to follow (e.g. the Crusades).
Christianity, like all religions, advocate violence more they they condemn it. The entire Bible is almost nothing but war stories, murder, and god sanctioned murder. Your willful ignorance is far from convincing.
Last time I checked, we are already spending millions on trying to stop car crashes, especially drunk driving, which is the biggest problem.
I certainly agree that some religions do teach hate, but Christ's teachings (for example) have never supported hate nor violence. (I'm not saying the Catholic Church never supported violence; that's an entirely separate issue.)
No, that is not an "entirely separate issue". You cannot pick and choose subsets of Christian teachings depending on which debate you happen to engage in. "Christianity" is a large set of teachings, plus a two thousand year history documenting how its followers have interpreted and applied those teachings.
Few religions advocate violence against those who hold different beliefs.
If your belief system includes the notion that people who do not follow your beliefs are subject to eternal damnation, then you are implicitly advocating violence against those who hold different beliefs: compared to eternal damnation, nothing you can do to a person in this life measures up. And that is why Christian churches have frequently oppressed, tortured, and killed those who hold other beliefs.
Christianity contains at its core immoral and violent dogma; the fact that it also contains some moral and non-violent beliefs does not cancel that out.