re: What's your one solution to end terrorism?

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Every group has shitty sects. But when average people believe that they are doing gods work, you have bigger problems.

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Depends what "gods work" looks like. The Bible teaches that God's work (or will for us) is to obey God's law (think 10 commandments) towards one another and preach the gospel so that people will be saved. Aside from maybe thinking that preaching is annoying, it's very benign at worst and a positive influence on society at best. You get into trouble when you start imposing requirements and laws on people in the name of God where they don't exist in the source material.

Atheism typically goes with naturalism, materialism, and moral relativism, which allows adherents to justify any and all behaviors without any incentive to be "good" except for the possible repercussions meted by others. If you don't think there will be any negative consequences, you can do what you want without any sort of underlying "rightness" or "wrongness" holding you back, since such concepts ultimately reside in your own brain.

Aside from political genocide perpetuated under an atheistic worldview, you can see the results with those who feel suicidal and angry (or just want to be remembered) and want to take out as many people as they can before they go. You can justify just as much violence (if not more so) as an atheist as you can following a particular religion.