A couple of weeks ago I wrote the following letter to the editor, sent to our local paper (
Register Guard) in response to a previous letter:
Killers are responsible for killing
Maggie Pugsley (letters, Sept. 16)
believes those behind the anti-Muslim film are responsible for the
fanatical and psychotic response to that film the world is now
witnessing. The naiveté, political correctness and apologist bias within
that opinion is truly scary. The only ones responsible for killings are
the ones doing the killing.
Whatever strange mechanism that
lives in much of humanity that causes such tragic responses when
offended by religious insults is equally scary, as well as responsible.
Sure, the filmmakers should have
known better, and probably did. And we can’t dismiss the likely
possibility that intelligence operatives were behind the film in the
first place. That aside, the guilty ones are those choosing rioting and
killing in the name of a god.
A willingness to kill each other to
protect an unseen entity is a frightening reality that humanity has
indulged in for thousands of years.
Fear of those who would kill in the
name of their god is understandable, but pretending to a philosophical
understanding of religious thugs allows them to continue without
consequence.
Regan Lee
Eugene
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