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Well this is the point. A tiny minority of the people 'inspired' by any given fundamentalist talking head commit acts of violence, suggesting the problem is with the ones committing the violence, and not the words they're hearing.
There are definitely facts about religion. It's just that so many of them are unverifiable. Or even if they can be known by some they can't be proved to others.
How many scientific facts do you believe because somebody else wrote them in books? We're not all scientists with facilities and equipment able to verify things for ourselves.
Yeah but statistics. If you increase the sample size and if the statistic correlates, then you’d have more people inspired to act violently
But science is capable and willing to verify them for you. There are multiple books written on multiple competing hypotheses. You can place whatever level of trust you want in the books, the book is still examinable.
Sorry Hillsong I already gave my tithing to Mr Scientist
It's not a fair comparison because there's a lot more scientists.
They will find another justification for acting violently. There is always something that pisses violent people off. The problem is that they're violent, not whom they're listening to.
Not at all. If I'm a drunkard or an adulterer I might feel unsafe after Folau's social media activity, or I might not. Either is a fact but you won't know. You just have to take my word for it. I might just be pissed off at him, but claim to feel unsafe to shut him up. The fact of how I'm feeling is only knowable by me.
Why would you think religion is about stuff written in books when the evidence points to it being about human interaction?
If 1 of those people only act violently because of fundamentalist influence, then statistically increasing that influence over a greater population it will potentially make another person act violently.
Poupou Escobar said:
My point is it's not the fundamentalist influence that's making them act violently. They act violently because they're merkins, not because some cleric told them their wife walked out because the West corrupted her.
