Relative to the hundreds of millions of muslims, those who want to destroy the west are about the same proportionately as the number of fundamentalist christians that want to bomb the shit out of Islamic countries and grind their religion under their heels.
Seriously.
Are you SURE about this rareboy? Something tells me the ratio of Christians who want to turn the entire Middle East (except, of course, Israel) into a massive sheet of green glass is FAR higher than the ratio of Muslims who want to destroy this fundamentalist Christian nation. (Let's face it, like it or not, this nation is plummeting into the sewer of fundamentalism VERY quickly, and those types seem to be reaping all the Power and Glory lately...we may be fucked well before February.)
One thing I really love about this site is that we get comments from Canadians and from people in other countries who are at least somewhat removed from the unadulterated bullshit, lies, and blatant propaganda spewed by so much of the mainstream media in the United States. the propaganda machine in the U.S. is far more healthy and robust than anything the Soviet Union ever had. And I find these non-U. S. replies often to be the most interesting and on target.
Actually, some of these fundamentalists would be perfectly happy to see Israel destroyed in the process as well.
So I would assume that you guys would also agree that the church in Florida has the right to burn the Koran - it's their freedom.
I guess they have the right however it's in poor taste just like building the mosque/center so close to ground zero. All you do is piss people off -- nothing good comes out of it.
Don't even get me started on that idiot pastor. I'll bet
ALMOST ANYTHING that he's given sermons which promote death to gays as well, and he probably goes home and beats and bruises his wife for burning the toast. What a total waste of perfectly good protoplasm!
Since Muslims are not in the habit of giving korans to crazy Christians for book-burnings, I would like to know how they came by them! Deception? Theft? I think that should be investigated.
They probably got the Qu'rans from the same place that Muslims get them: Amazon, Borders, thrift shops, etc. That church is no doubt totally rolling in the money, and can certainly afford to buy a couple hundred Qu'rans.
Did the pastor (and similar people) stop to think, even for as short as a New York nanopicosecond, that all the publicity will inevitably result in a surge in sales of Qu'rans, and yet more money/proceeds for the Muslims who are having them published? No, they didn't think of THAT. They're too simplistic and stupid to realize that fact.
in fact some of the smartest and most insightful people I've ever known have limited formal education.
A PhD, Masters doesn't AUTOMATICALLY make you smart
Last sentence corrected for truth, because sometimes the Ph. D. or Masters DOES make somebody smart, LOL.
But interesting observation, Jack - I've noticed the same thing my whole life. Schools NEVER teach things such as
common sense, compassion, or life skills - a person who has a good sense of these is going to be much "smarter" on life issues than the person whose cranium is filled with zillions of facts, many of which he/she may never even use the rest of their lives.
