The Murder of the Woolwich Soldier

Regarding yesterdays events. If you read the Qur'an you can find passages that condemn this kind of violence and promote peace. This is what the majority of good, peaceful, intelligent Muslims live by. But with another few page turns you can find passages that explicitly promote evil, hatred and death. And a dangerous number do just that, with extreme deluded passion. If only the world could drop these unnecessary stone-age texts and live a moral life based on rational discussion and cease to respect the notion of faith (belief in the absence of evidence). Until we fully promote a secular world we are only making the earth safer for people who want to use the worst aspects of their religion to carry out acts of bigotry, hate and violence. It's 2013 - so lets take some advice from the mission statement of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science: "... to support scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and human suffering".