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Old November 18, 2002, 16:29   #31
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How can the very author of the Gospel misinterpret his very own passage?

We have been taking too many lit. classes, haven't we?
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Upon first reading this thread, I was afraid it would turn into a mass flame-fest
Its nice to see that you guyz can still have fun with such subjects, this thread made me LMAO.
 
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So if the Prime Minister of Israel announced that Judaism was just another branch of Islam they could then proceed to "have their way" with their entire Palestinian population and then receive al-Quaida's blessing and possibly even their help?
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Yeah, they would probably even start crashing planes into the West Bank!
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This just goes to show the idiocy will never stop and the people who say we should appaise them are wrong. Even if we gave them everything they wanted they would just come up with another idiotic justification to continue acting like the barbarians they are.
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Hmm...I hate to differenciate myself from you Americans However, I would never convert to Islam.

How bout Bananaism instead?
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Re: Americans! All we have to do is convert to Islam and the terrorist attacks will stop!
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Source: Al Queda.

I say its worth it.

All we have to do is convert in a mass ceremony. It is obviously worth it to save lives.


But shouldn´t you also abandon democracy and personal freedoms then?
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I say we force convert all of the Muslim countries to Hindu. We haven't had much trouble from Hindus historically, and they have an accent that I find much more amusing than that Arab one.
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Islam is an interesting religion and if it wasn't for the whole drinking thing I'd definately consider it The respect for nature, respect for peace and respect for the individual thing is pretty funky as well.

It's fanatics like Thrawn, on both sides, that ruin the whole jejiggers.
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Re: Re: Americans! All we have to do is convert to Islam and the terrorist attacks will stop!
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But shouldn´t you also abandon democracy and personal freedoms then?
Well, we've alread... nah, too easy.
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If we converted to Islam, then Christian Right terrorists would simply start bombing things other than schools, clinics and judges.

A ideology that tells you you have not only the right but the moral duty to impose your shibboleths on others is fine -- but in a world in which we have more than one of them then placating *any* of them is suicidal.

Screw em all and let their variously vaunted gods sort em out.
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This is a thread that I will laugh and then move on.
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Drake You mistake the actions of a few fanatics. Christianity also has its insane terrorists.
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There are fundamental differences between Christianity and Islam, despite what the PC crowd may say. Compare the teachings of Jesus Christ with those of Muhammed and then tell us which one supports peace and respect for the individual. Islam does promise peace, but only to other Muslims. The infidels are promised nothing but war.
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So far those willing to convert are in the lead, followed closely by the banana worshipers.
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Drake You mistake the actions of a few fanatics. Christianity also has its insane terrorists.
Some consider the Society of St. Pius V a "terrorist" group because they believe the Vatican II Council is wrong. But you don't see them bombing people either.
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It's fanatics like Thrawn, on both sides, that ruin the whole jejiggers.
I'm not a fanatic. I don't go around flamming the threads with I believe in or killing people who don't share my point of view.

If you want to convert... fine, I could care less.
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I hate to go into this...
But the Christians have had their Inquisitions, their Holy Wars, their Crusaders, and I could go on...
All in the name of the Christ...
Its gotten better and nowadays is pretty uncommon...
Only to show that these problemes are way more social than actually religious...
Islamist would have done the same bad things as the Christians did give the same historico-socio-economic factors (woh that was a fun "word) and Christians would do the same thing if they live in Irak, had embargos , were being bombed by US airplanes periodically, lived under repressive regimes or were being informed via propaganda etc...
Religion is just an excuse to get ppl together and pumped up....
 
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This just goes to show the idiocy will never stop and the people who say we should appaise them are wrong. Even if we gave them everything they wanted they would just come up with another idiotic justification to continue acting like the barbarians they are.

Are you one of these people that think that these groups of fanatics are attacking the US (and shortly others) because they are jealous of your wealth and hate freedom?

That they come from all over the world to commit suicide in some desparate attack on your country because of the American way of life.



How many civilians have been killed by US action throughout the globe, or don`t the fuzzy wuzzies count.

I think that if the US and west wasn`t interfering in other countries and blatantly supporting certain states against others and against their own people (Iraq being a prime example, the sentiment of which is not likely to change) the US would not now be a target.

These people have not just appeared from nowhere, driven by nothing.

They were funded, trained and moulded by us and now our actions have up set them.

anyway I have had enough I`ll leave it there.
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Bah! I don't believe that.

They are attacking our way of life. Of course indirectly that is related to us.

Essentually they want to bring us down to their level. They live in poverty and in fear of dying any day. They wish to inflict that upon the U.S. I can't blame them for this. They are jealous of our peace and security.

We could remove all support of Israel and remove all foreign troops and they would still attack us. Their excuse? Americanization. They would complain about american business influence on the rest of the world. They do not want to lose their culture to the american culture.
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Bah! I don't believe that.

They are attacking our way of life. Of course indirectly that is related to us.

Essentually they want to bring us down to their level. They live in poverty and in fear of dying any day. They wish to inflict that upon the U.S. I can't blame them for this. They are jealous of our peace and security.

We could remove all support of Israel and remove all foreign troops and they would still attack us. Their excuse? Americanization. They would complain about american business influence on the rest of the world. They do not want to lose their culture to the american culture.
Why haven`t the richer neutral countries in the world been attacked then?


Its not your way of life its your interfering in others thats the problem.

Most of these individuals would not know or care about the US and what it did or did not have if they were not suffering as a result of US foreign policy.

A nice example is Iran and the revolution that happened over there as a result of US interference.

The sad truth is you are now reaping the rewards of your previous actions. Whats sad is that you can`t take responsibility for your part in creating the current climate and are seeking to hide in some childish fantasy that coordinated suicidal groups are formed because people are jealous. Now that is a stretch of the imagination even for the willingly stupid.
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Well, maybe it's just me, but:

1) I don't care which religion I ignore

2) I'd rather have an extra-long lunch hour on Fridays to accomodate prayer that be expected to get up on Sunday morning for it

3) I'm convinced the US is just a hair's breadth away from being run by fundamentalist nutjobs anyway

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I have a feeling that the new Islamic Playboy is not going to be as much fun to "read".
Maybe you wold see the t*ts but not the face
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Bah! I don't believe that.

They are attacking our way of life. Of course indirectly that is related to us.

Essentually they want to bring us down to their level. They live in poverty and in fear of dying any day. They wish to inflict that upon the U.S. I can't blame them for this. They are jealous of our peace and security.

We could remove all support of Israel and remove all foreign troops and they would still attack us. Their excuse? Americanization. They would complain about american business influence on the rest of the world. They do not want to lose their culture to the american culture.
I don't think so, their people see good thing and bad things of our culture, and everyone wants ultimatley to be free as in US, or even more (from the government), however US actions in the ME for decades (since WWII, before it was the Brits) have brought this upon us, and there is a couple of generations of people there where true terrorists can be born and US foreign policy just makes the things they are saying become true. Look just in the story of Saddam Hussein and Iraq. So they get support and next moment the tide turn, now we have the wars looming again, that will create more of the same - terrorists and their supporters (unless we have local support like in Afghanistan, than I think the war will not neccessarily breed terrorists, but somehow I doubt this will happen in Iraq).

Like those POW's that are in Guantanamo... if they ever doubted their Mullahs that the west is hell, and that USA is the Great Satan, Guantanamo surely erased all their doubts. Whether they were the terrorists or whether they were innocent.

Instead of spending 100 billion+ on the war, you could have spent 1/4 of it on Afghanistan and infrastucture and build a popular base for yourself in the region, and show the people that US is not such a great satan it appaers to be... however that will never happen will it?
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