Atheists & Agnostics

Freelancer

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19. Some people get rich during crusades, and others get to feel holy. Win-Win??? I don't think so.

Thu Dec 31, 2015, 03:38 AM

Dec 2015

It seems like some of the sons (figuratively) of Saladin are asking us to dance again -- to an old ditty called the crusade. And some of the sons and daughters of Christendom are thinking about taking them up on it -- thinking about sending others out to wage it, anyway. It pisses me off that there don't seem to be enough Muslims actively intervening to squelch support for jihadism in their midst. At the same time, though, I'm at a loss as to how to put the brakes on my own country's slide into forever-war. Just personally refuse to be a weaponized primate, and speak out when it won't cause an inverse effect, I guess.

Here's a link to Twain's 'The War Prayer' (grit your teeth through the beginning -- it gets interesting). I imagine quite a number of fundamentalists hate it -- not all, though.

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Sanctimonious Militant TeaHadists Pi$$ me off [View all] M Kitt Dec 2015 OP

Many of us here do not think all Muslims edhopper Dec 2015 #1

Identify the "We" that you represent, please. M Kitt Dec 2015 #2

You were posting in the Atheists & Agnostic group edhopper Dec 2015 #3

So you're not disagreeing with those posts, it would seem. M Kitt Dec 2015 #4

Okay edhopper Dec 2015 #5

OK, appreciate the feedback. M Kitt Dec 2015 #7

Yes edhopper Dec 2015 #11

There are no '"Fundie" elements in this group' mr blur Dec 2015 #20

OK, so I've posted that same item outside this "Group" M Kitt Jan 2016 #22

"protective of your' turf"? Perhaps we are, mr blur Jan 2016 #23

Agreed, hence this is a "Group" MB M Kitt Jan 2016 #24

Cool story, bro. cleanhippie Dec 2015 #6

That's my ambition, CH. M Kitt Dec 2015 #8

They aren't 'smearing'... uriel1972 Dec 2015 #9

Thanks, U-72. M Kitt Dec 2015 #10

Until we develop mind reading technology or they admit it in public... uriel1972 Dec 2015 #12

Full Disclosure? Don't recall conflating "Atheists" with doing something "Bad". M Kitt Dec 2015 #13

I don't think you intended it that way.. uriel1972 Dec 2015 #14

OK, thanks. I'll add one critical distinction, what represents the "Fundamentalist" label. M Kitt Dec 2015 #15

As I understand it... uriel1972 Dec 2015 #16

Here is the really terrifying part. Promethean Dec 2015 #17

Sharia Sucks, of course, represents the worst case. M Kitt Dec 2015 #18

Some people get rich during crusades, and others get to feel holy. Win-Win??? I don't think so. Freelancer Dec 2015 #19

Interesting comment on the hipocrisy of organized religion. M Kitt Jan 2016 #21