Reply #90: There's nothing but contempt for the extremism represented by terrorists [View All]

who are basically just using the fundamentalism for their political ends...thereby deceiving the masses who believe in them

Oh, we were talking about Islam...ok

Yes, those terrorists, whether they believe in their faith or use that faith for political ends, are disgusting killers and murderers.

My problem is with the whole concept, that leads these giant flocks of thoughtful people into certain camps. We've done that with politics now, and the lines are being drawn. I refer back to Jefferson, who said:

"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789

OnEdit: some needed editing