dont throw the baby out with the #bathwater.

i agree, there's A LOT of VERY DIRTY bathwater to be thrown out.

but dont throw the baby out with it.

get more specific, more investigative, check it out, before you throw it all out.

... i'll stop there before i attempt to over-work the analogy.

this is something i've thought of for religion for about 20 years. i used to be one of those militant atheist anti-religious sorts since early childhood, thinking the christianity i was introduced to, and forced to go to church in until 12, was a load of nonsense about a story book n a fictional character called jesus. it was not until i was challenged on it (around age 17), that i realised i was arguing from ignorance, that i did not know neither deep or wide into religion. and it seemed that's what every other militant anti-religion atheist was doing too. arguing from ignorance, armed with their cherry picked facts to present it all as bad as their worst tidbits. a little bit of information is a dangerous thing.

the analogy ("dont throw the baby out with the bathwater") springs to mind very loud again these days with all the anti-muslim and anti-semetic noise going around. there is worthyness in islam. some of it, we will do well to learn from. and no, i dont mean take it all whole, as thats just the other side of the stupidity-coin of throwing it all out whole. cant get there from absolutes. one has to delve into the nuance. one has to study and explore.

if you listened to the naysayers who seem to seek some kind of holy war / religious war, you'd think all of islam is the same, and that all who follow it are therefor in a child rape gang (skipping for a moment that there's more child rape gangs with people of their (the accuser's) religious/cultural/ethnic backgrounds, so~~). ... as if there's no virtue in islam anywhere.

same with the noise n nonsense of "anti-semitism". cant possibly think they're all like the worst characterisations, and therefor cant possibly have any virtue in the decrees to get them all, since that'd be mass punishment of the majority of innocents. even as you separate out religion, culture and ethnicity, you can see diversity in each, even in these religions that try so hard to keep their religious text unedited.

how broad must one's brush become before they will realise the folly of tarring wide? guilt by association. we're all human, so all humans must suffer punishment for the worst of us?

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to paraphrase Gandhi:

I am a Hindu, I am a Muslim, I am a Christian, I am a Jew, and so are you. now bog off.

his noodlyness is watching. #fsm