"1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:11, 18 February 2015 (UTC) There are many ways of promoting "backward cultures", one of the most prominent of them being taking the worst aspects of the worst people of any other groups and mis-identifying them as innately characteristic of all. This is forever and always one of the primary means by which bigotries are created and sustained, and go on destroying the lives and liberties of millions. I am NOT saying there are not brutal bigots, tyrants and terrorists who think of themselves as "good" muslims any more than I would deny that there are many who think of themselves as "good" Christians, good Jews, good Hindus, good sectarians of any of the more exclusionist creeds, or "good" atheists or even good agnostics or humanists. Those with a bit more enlightenment do not contend so much against the relatively minor conceptual errors or deficiencies of any of the creeds or forms of creedless faith, so much as against the major conceptual errors of embracing and endorsing unjust harshness, extreme bigotry and brutality, against ANY individuals or groups, for ANY reason or rationales. MOST creeds have MANY deficiencies and some significant errors — the wise can contend against these without assuming that anyone and everyone who generally gravitate to some formal creeds embraces the worst of these, or even clearly discerns them."
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