[Livia]

Originally Posted by lostalex

i think i agree with you, but i'm not sure.

you are discrediting ideologies, but are you also discrediting those ideologies completely/ or are you justifying those ideologies by saying that we shouldn't take them seriously? i'm confused.

It's a dangerous game saying that hate groups(religions) can get away with it because most people don't take them seriously, but some people do take them seriously.

I'm not saying they shouldn't be taken seriously, but they should be taken in context. What was right (or believed to be right) 5000 years ago is not necessarily right when we look at them logically, with the benefit of hindsight and after five millenniums of civilisation. I believe they should be viewed as being the beliefs of the forebears of my religion. I understand that they believed in them then, I don't believe in them now and nor does any humane, civilised person. Of course there are fundamentalists who still go for this stuff because it suits their agenda. But let's face it... they're either uneducated and indoctrinated, or they're as mad as sh1t-house rats.