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Right and wrong
By:EBW
Date: Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 9:43 pm
In Response To: You know better than that! (bobbym)

> You know as well as anyone that
> organizations cannot be Christian, only
> individuals can.

That's true. But it works the same on both sides.

The leaders of the Arab resistance are not Islamic, although they pretend to be.
They are political.

The Neo Cons who run the US war machine are not Christian, although they pretend to be.
They are political.

But in both cases there are religious trappings to disguise their very antiChrist antiGod nature.

The are political fronts with religious trappings.

> You also know that Lydia is speaking about
> religions, NOT nations or leaders.

So let me see if I understand your, uh, point.

You are lumping all the protesters (Arab and otherwise) from around the world into a group based on their common religion, Islam.
And you condemn their acts of rioting as religious extremism.

On the other hand, you refuse to accept the lumping together of their antagonists according to THEIR common religion, Chri$tianity,
and you seek to omit from the discussion all acts of violence by that group, on the basis that those acts have nothing to do with religion.

You need to make up your mind.

Either this is a religious conflict of Islam vs Christianity,
or,
it is a political/economic conflict of rich industrialized nations vs poor third world countries.

If one side is Islam,
the other side is Chri$tianity.

If one side is the industrialized countries.
The other side is the third world.

If you criticize the rioting of "Muslims", and attribute it to their religion,

Then you cannot exclude criticism of the death and destruction rained down upon those Muslims by their oppressors who just happen to be Chri$tians.

You have to choose. Is this a war between religions or a war between national groups.

If it's a war between nations then surely the acts of both nations must be considered.

If it's a war between religions, then surely the acts of both religions must be considered.

What you seem to want to do is totally disregard the violence on the part of the Bu$h League, claiming that it doesn't apply because it's not religious.

But at the same time you claim that the violence of the Mideast nations is totally religious in nature.

You seem to be ignoring thousands of tons of very real physical bombs, bullets, napalm, depleted uranium, white phosphor, helicopters, tanks, cruise missiles, mycoplama, etc etc etc etc.

Those are not religious issues, they are totally physical issues. Much more physical and real than either politics or religion.

And they have a lot more to do with the current riots than do any cartoons in Denmark.

So don't call it religious extremism when the Arabs vent their anger and do some physical acts of their own. It's no more religious than the bombs that killed their children.

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