Monday, January 10, 2005

Free Iraqi: Is Islam compatible with democracy?: "What I'm trying to say is that no religion in its present form is compatible with democracy and both democracy and religion can only co-exist if that religion is marginalized. In my mind all present religions, if you take them from the mouths of their advocators, being Imams, priests or whatever they are called in other religions and look at them with a modern rational mind, are (pardon me) so full of sh*t! (Note that I'm not talking about the core of those beliefs but how they're presented to us now). There's no way one can develop a modern democracy directly from any of those religions simply because all of them declare that they have the absolute truth."

Emphasis mine

(Via Free Iraqi.)