Half of the world's problems wouldn't exist without religion.
I'm okay with humanity's insignificance and I don't need fairy tales to teach me how not to be a s***ty person

Half of the current world wouldn't exist without religion lol

Kuffars love talking about the problems religions bring but always ignore the good things it has brought directly or indirectly

You are 100% right bro. But the reality of the matter is that christianity had a 600 year head start so they had a extra 600 years to mellow out. Islam will get there in a few hundred years. Just need them old ass clerics to kick it and certain laws need to get obsolete + reforms. But we will get there

Planet's overpopulated

That's not what I meant lol

The US spent decades supporting and spreading fundamentalist ideology throughout the middle east to push back against communism and the Soviet Union.

6:31 on for more info

And they still do ... since bunsen trapped that energy from oil man. We been getting f***ed over

Watch as the US army "withdraws" from Afghanistan as this same radical fundamentalism coincidentally spreads across the Afghan-China border. Strange

I think the problem is just specific groups that take it way too extreme. I don't think Islam in itself needs reform. Islam is actually actively against reformation, so that probably' won't happen. Except those liberal / progressive muslims, but those are completely something else and I dislike them heavily aswell.

Religion will always have different interpetations, some of those won't be good, but I don't think changing the religion is the solution.

Taliban and hizbullah and the ayatollah had a meeting during the first month of the start of the "new" USA adminstration in tehran. The plan is in motion

What’s this mean for the future of the region man? Like geopolitically? For Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan/India, China?

Exactly the same could be said about christians 600 years ago. BUT once people get ruled over by the crazy exteremists and feel the wrath of god they will put aside the funky interpretations and reform will happen

The US also removed the East Turkistan Islamic Movement from the terrorist watch list in December. You can read here about how the US worked with China to get them listed in the first place.

The Bush Administration designated the PRC-targeted “East Turkistan Islamic Movement” (ETIM) as a terrorist organization in August 2002, reportedly allowed PRC interrogators access to Uighur detainees at Guantanamo in September 2002

Wow, Uighurs in Guantanamo! I'm sure a certain user in this subforum is very upset over this

The fundementalists will grab power. Create one party ruling class systems.
Their crew will monopolize the economy. The wealth will go to their family, supporters and the para militias that protect them.

They are technologically inept so they need China's help for censorship and to keep the vas unhappy population in check. In return they will offer china resources, land and cheap labor. That is how the new silk road comes alive

Keep in mind that China and USA are NOT enemies. US lobbyist have their factories in china... all they really want out of this world is cheaper options...

The core way in which Islam and Christianity work make sure that an actual reformation like Christianity could never happen, not at that scale.

I think a big part of the reformation was the fact that Christianity got that "Church", in which it's basically 1 big entity that controlled all ideas about Christianity. In the Roman Empire there were not many people that could read the Bible because translations didn't exist in many languages.

Having a single entity like that in a religion is just very dangerous and abuse of power happens quickly. The reformation back then partially happened because for example Martin Luther felt like "The Church" was moving away from what he thought was Christianity and partially because of the rise of humanism.

It's easier to create a big reformation like the Protestant reformation when you're against 1 big entity like "the church", way harder to do when it's against Islam where every city can have different mosques with different interpetations (in europe especially).

Small movements like the one in the 9th and 10th century with the Muʿtazila movement could happen and I feel like those are already happening, like the progressive muslims. I personally don't like them though.

The church was pretty much its own government

And now most christians dont go to church. Thats the reform that was needed lol

That's not really a reform, that's just practicing their religion less / different

Mosques don't have the same influence on muslims like the church has on christians

Not necessarily, you dont need to go to a place of worship to keep it halal all the time . Your morals are your morals. Practicing a religion doesnt make you a good person,, as a matter of fact i be more worried about the phonies with zebibah marks than devil worshippers

I see you added /different and i agree with that.

It doesn't necessarily, but going the mosque can be seen as obligatory in Islam. Hadith about it, and quran verses too IIRC.

Not sure about christianity though, that's why I added "different"

But it is true that someone that doesn't go to the mosque can be a better muslim than someone that does go

I can feel that IRL lmao