loss of irony
A quote from the BBC regarding the "cartoon protests" in Afghanistan.
"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC.
"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said.
I'm sorry, but does anyone else see a problem in masked gunmen showing up to protest a cartoon depicting Muslims as terrorists? I find it funny because it's so tragic. How can we ever hope to deal with these mindsets? Obviously provocation isn't the way to go.
Regardless, Theocracy is the greatest crime man has ever committed against religion. It would seem to me that this violence is not inherent to the Islamic religion but rather a product of hundreds of years of totalitarian theocracies. Theocracy killed Jesus, ran the Inquisition, burned witches at the stake, and fought both sides of the Crusades. Religion should be a personal thing that we share with each other. Not a government of our personal lives. Like Heschel said, 'an action is not moral because we feel obligated to do it, we feel obligated to do it because it is moral'. No man should feel that obligated murder is moral, and no religion should preach it.
Our country needs to view what is happening and realize that a nation under God is not the same a nation ruled by God. A nation ruled by "God" is a one of simple minds controlled by the delusional. Leave it to history to decide who were the true prophets and who were the wolves in sheep's clothing. Each man should take it upon himself to find God, not let another man find God for him. I compare our current leaders to President Lincoln, a religious man, who preferred to submit his actions to God's judgement rather than assume that because he's in power, God guides his actions directly. I thought we had passed on divine right a long time ago.
"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC.
"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said.
I'm sorry, but does anyone else see a problem in masked gunmen showing up to protest a cartoon depicting Muslims as terrorists? I find it funny because it's so tragic. How can we ever hope to deal with these mindsets? Obviously provocation isn't the way to go.
Regardless, Theocracy is the greatest crime man has ever committed against religion. It would seem to me that this violence is not inherent to the Islamic religion but rather a product of hundreds of years of totalitarian theocracies. Theocracy killed Jesus, ran the Inquisition, burned witches at the stake, and fought both sides of the Crusades. Religion should be a personal thing that we share with each other. Not a government of our personal lives. Like Heschel said, 'an action is not moral because we feel obligated to do it, we feel obligated to do it because it is moral'. No man should feel that obligated murder is moral, and no religion should preach it.
Our country needs to view what is happening and realize that a nation under God is not the same a nation ruled by God. A nation ruled by "God" is a one of simple minds controlled by the delusional. Leave it to history to decide who were the true prophets and who were the wolves in sheep's clothing. Each man should take it upon himself to find God, not let another man find God for him. I compare our current leaders to President Lincoln, a religious man, who preferred to submit his actions to God's judgement rather than assume that because he's in power, God guides his actions directly. I thought we had passed on divine right a long time ago.
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