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Originally posted by juju2112
Most of the populus is dirt poor, and the only way to feed themselves is to either join the military or enlist with the Taliban. Want a bowl of hot soup and some bread? Suuuure...just sit right here and listen to our religous rhetoric.
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Very good article...
I think of those two American women that are currently being held in Afghanistan for "proselytizing." Their families say that they were not preaching Christianity. As suspicious as I am, I tend to believe them, particularly given what seems to be the downright paranoid and brutal nature of the Taliban.
I think it comes back to how religion is used to blind people from their suffering, and how some people follow it so blindly. A distortion on both ends. What did Marx call it? "An opiate for the masses"? I don't have any objection to religion, as I consider myself a Christian and was raised semi-Catholic. But I find it both amazing and scary how something so subjective is used so effectively at times.