An interesting view on the Muslims

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Sure, but like she said I don't see who groups of Christian Fundies blowing things and themselves up because they have disagreements.

No, but you do get the occasional one blowing other people up because of disagreements.

Christian Fundies are not feeling too disenfranchised right now because everyone is telling them that they are the 'base' of the Republican party and every politician has been paying them lip service (applied to ass cheek). They are just beginning to wake up to the fact that:

a) GWB has weakened their credibility by crediting them with his success in being the worst President in 100 years and

b) Using them twice to get to the White House and basically ignoring the key points of their agenda, even when his party controlled 2 branches of government.

They now have a reputation as wing nut suckers who seem willing to transfer blind faith in G-d to blind faith in anyone who claims to carpool with G-d. In the latest primary, this 'base' went for Huckabee and noone followed.

Let's see what a few years in the wilderness does to their demeanor.

Don't get me wrong. Faith is necessary for human existence. But faith tied to rigid dogma and intolerance has no place. At some point, religious faith has been used to:

Justify slavery, segregation, and ban interracial marriage.
Discredit environmentalism.

Most people of faith are good and decent. Unfortunately, the mixture of faith and politics leads to the decay of both. Just as religion and commercialism have led to Santa Clause replacing Jesus, religion and politics have led to to an intolerance in both areas. When no substantive results are possible, playing to the 'base' by disenfranchising gays is an easy win in politics.

This is not new to politics. Racial, ethnic, and other forms of 'outsider' baiting have been used throughout the world in any system where the ruling class needs to placate the lower classes. Religion just becomes another convenient hook for exploitable fear and a desire for easy solutions.

Whether Shiite/Sunni or Protestant/Catholic, power struggles have always led to destruction. The only difference between the Shiite/Sunni violence in the Middle East and the Protestant/Catholic violence in Middle Europe is about 400 years worth of technology.

If Guy Fawkes had access to 30 pounds of modern explosives instead of 1800 pounds of gunpowder, you might have had the world's first Christian suicide bomber 400 years before Iraq.


BTW, Fawkes did have some real cojones.

Fawkes, however, managed to avoid the worst of this execution by jumping from the scaffold where he was supposed to be hanged, breaking his neck before he could be drawn and quartered