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Originally Posted by ElsaMars
iCare, I appreciate your last post but cannot agree with most of it. Reminds me of how many religious people tell me "that isn't a true Christian" when they do something heinous. True believers will and do awful things in the name of their religion. They are truly religious. In an effort to avoid saying anything more which might be construed as heretical, I will stop now. I don't need the witch hunters on my back again.
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But it
is generally true. At least with ISIS, many young men have had little exposure to religion. They get disillusioned and reject religion. Until someone tells them they are worth something, someone who relates to them and cares them, for life's injustices. They don't learn about religion. They are brainwashed.
Might work the same way with Scientology. Big in Los Angeles and New York. Not the US's most religious parts, I think. But lots of disillusioned people. Both "successful" and deprived.
It's about feeling cared for by others, not about religion.