This article is a good example of how completely rational, secular individuals can be sucked into a premillennial dispensationalist narrative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism
LargoLasskhyfv•7mo ago
Why?
"The spread of Islam presents a profound challenge to open societies. While we cherish tolerance as a foundational value, tolerance of intolerance eventually becomes self-destructive.2 As we struggle to defend secular, liberal values without lapsing into bigotry or xenophobia, the distinction between criticizing ideas and dehumanizing people is essential. But so is honesty: And the truth is that open societies cannot tolerate the spread of Islamic fanaticism indefinitely." seems perfectly reasonable to me.
licebmi__at__•7mo ago
Because it misses how secular and liberal societies are the ones subsidizing and weaponizing islamists on one side, and causing the ire of other groups that will also weaponize islam as revenge of the military incursion of same secular societies.
I don't have any qualms to detest fundamentalism, jihadism included; but any analysis that focuses on religion and not on the different geopolitical incursions the so called "secular" west, it's childish and it's not even worth to consider. And it's such a joke that these "secular" and "rational" individuals would rather embrace religion than accept that their societies might be complicit and reponsible of all this suffering.
bigyabai•7mo ago
LargoLasskhyfv•7mo ago
"The spread of Islam presents a profound challenge to open societies. While we cherish tolerance as a foundational value, tolerance of intolerance eventually becomes self-destructive.2 As we struggle to defend secular, liberal values without lapsing into bigotry or xenophobia, the distinction between criticizing ideas and dehumanizing people is essential. But so is honesty: And the truth is that open societies cannot tolerate the spread of Islamic fanaticism indefinitely." seems perfectly reasonable to me.
licebmi__at__•7mo ago
I don't have any qualms to detest fundamentalism, jihadism included; but any analysis that focuses on religion and not on the different geopolitical incursions the so called "secular" west, it's childish and it's not even worth to consider. And it's such a joke that these "secular" and "rational" individuals would rather embrace religion than accept that their societies might be complicit and reponsible of all this suffering.