Quote Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz View Post
Robinho, no need to be sorry about my being sorry.

Overall, you sound like an agnostic, rather than atheist. With all respect for your views, in the modern day world it is difficult, pretty much impossible to counter somebody else's strong beliefs and convictions like those of Paris shooters, while yours are so vague.

Something inside tells me that the unreligiousness of the French is a contributing factor to such easy penetration of Islamic militants into their society.
I would catergorise myself as atheist, strongly in fact. I genuinely do not believe in any god. I'm not agnostic is the sense that I don't feel I can know for certain, I am certain there is not a god. But, like many in the world I expect, who do identify themselves as Christian, I do observe the cultural festivities, just not identifying with the ideology or story behind them.

Unsure about the idea of a lack of religiousness allowing penetration for extremism, not when you look at the extremes of violence in highly religious societies (pakistan, Nigeria for example). I hope, and think I observe, a growing apathy towards all things religious in a lot of the "developed" world, which will I hope push these issues further out, but I do also agree that modern society is becoming more impatient and insular. I don't necessarily equate that to religion or lack thereof, as the symptoms do not seem to afflict the non-religious only - consider that in the USA over 80% of people identify themselves as belonging to a religion, but they are just as afflicted by the same social problems and general rudeness. I think it's just people, and as there are more people in more compressed area. I also think religion feeds some of these divides, which are replaced by racial, sexual and class discrimination and barriers.