I suspect I should just accept this as a quirk of modern society? �When religion meets science
Religion is a very different thing according to how those in power use it and how ordinary people perceive it. Religion is actually a form of philosophy, a pretty much immature form of it from ancient times that still survives. The problem is when the elites use religion or other philosophies to trick people into being slaves for the elites' causes. Christianity for example was pretty much groundbreaking and revolutionary when it first appeared, but after that it was slowly incorporated into the state and the elites, changed some of its foundations, became contradictory and helped into oppressing people. Islamist countries until the end of 18th century were more developed than the shithole Europe was, they were great in sciences. After the industrial revolution Islamists fell behind and the problems started when the powerful Europe started taking advantage of them. Then Islam from a pro-science religion was interpreted by some powers as the philosophy of revenge for many people in Middle East and fueled all this extremism. Of course not all Islamists are like that some of them are not drawn by that interpretation.
Free market is not less of religion than Islam, and for sure more catastrophic.
Translated from a page I follow in Facebook:
Attacks in an airport, attacks inside metro stations. When the dogs of war that they unleash (meaning the west and their opponents) go nuts, they can bite even the one that unleashed them. The sad truth is that usually those who pay the price are those that are not at fault. Because the subway it is used by ordinary people, not by those who make the decisions, those have limos. The subway is used by those who clean toilets, who wash dishes, who paint walls, who go to school, locals and immigrants, and refugees amongst them. It would be ridiculous to see that as an anti-imperialist act because it happened in the capital of EU and NATO that we all hate.
Those attacks are a crime against victims and refugees because we know how the elites will use this attacks for their benefit, we know that the next victim will be the refugees. The dogs of imperialist elites are those who commited these crimes, dogs from one side dogs in the other side and ordinary people in the middle getting killed as a collateral damage from their big plans of domination against each other.