Posted on 03/10/2011 6:47:30 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Either you are dishonest and inconsistent, or you could very well answer the multiple choice question by going with (2). Your dodge doesn’t surprise me. You like pimping for Islam when you’re confident of not getting caught, but you don’t dare do it in a more open and honest way.
Bush had many good points and many blind spots. What do *you* think of Islam?
Either you are dishonest and inconsistent, or you could very well answer the multiple choice question by going with (2). Your dodge doesn’t surprise me. You like pimping for Islam when you’re confident of not getting caught, but you don’t dare do it in a more open and honest way.
It looks like a significant plurality of Americans agree with me.
Jamese, there are good and bad adherents of every faith (and/or cult). The question is not about individual members of Islam, but about Islam itself. I.e.: not whether some Muslims are radical or some are moderate, but what the belief system itself, as set forth in the quran, teaches. If the quran praises moderates and condemns extremists, that’s one thing. If it demands extremism and condemns moderates, that’s something else altogether.
Which do you think the quran does?
Jamese, there are good and bad adherents of every faith (and/or cult). The question is not about individual members of Islam, but about Islam itself. I.e.: not whether some Muslims are radical or some are moderate, but what the belief system itself, as set forth in the quran, teaches. If the quran praises moderates and condemns extremists, that’s one thing. If it demands extremism and condemns moderates, that’s something else altogether.
Which do you think the quran does?
“As with any religion, it’s all in the emphasis that the practitioner places on various tenets of the faith.”
I can understand why you or anyone else would think it his. It’s all the MSM, and many clueless pols, have been telling us for decades now. After a while people start thinking it must be true.
It isn’t. Each religion, both true and false, and every cult, has unique teachings. Adherents can quibble about the finer points, but either the main doctrines must be understandable or it’s a jumbled mishmash nobody pays attention to.
Islam is very clear in what it teaches. It teaches hate and murder, and offers ‘paradise’ only to those who faithfully practice these tenets.
You can’t dispute this, Jamese. It’s in the quran. The command to murder is not only spelled out in black and white—it was modeled by ‘the prophet’, Mohammed. Surely you know how many Jews and other infidels he savagely raped and killed killed. Are you suggesting ‘the prophet’ didn’t even understand his own religion???
It is only the brain-dead liberal creation known as ‘moral equivalence’ that makes this even an issue. Pre-moral equivalence, people had no difficulty comparing and contrasting the fundamental teachings and commandments of various religions. Post-moral-equivalence, those who voluntarily turn off their own capacity to critically think spout ideas that are ridiculous on their face—and they do so without dissolving into uncontrollable laughter.
It is a fact that a significant percentage of the population have reduced themselves to intellectual cripples—and they have seemingly no comprehension of what they’ve lost. We are the age of voluntary critical-rational morons, and the more moronic the pronouncements of the liberal ‘intelligencia’, the more brilliant they are declaimed to be.
Sad, isn’t it?
I can understand why you or anyone else would think it his. It’s all the MSM, and many clueless pols, have been telling us for decades now. After a while people start thinking it must be true.
It isn’t. Each religion, both true and false, and every cult, has unique teachings. Adherents can quibble about the finer points, but either the main doctrines must be understandable or it’s a jumbled mishmash nobody pays attention to.
Islam is very clear in what it teaches. It teaches hate and murder, and offers ‘paradise’ only to those who faithfully practice these tenets.
You can’t dispute this, Jamese. It’s in the quran. The command to murder is not only spelled out in black and white—it was modeled by ‘the prophet’, Mohammed. Surely you know how many Jews and other infidels he savagely raped and killed killed. Are you suggesting ‘the prophet’ didn’t even understand his own religion???
It is only the brain-dead liberal creation known as ‘moral equivalence’ that makes this even an issue. Pre-moral equivalence, people had no difficulty comparing and contrasting the fundamental teachings and commandments of various religions. Post-moral-equivalence, those who voluntarily turn off their own capacity to critically think spout ideas that are ridiculous on their face—and they do so without dissolving into uncontrollable laughter.
It is a fact that a significant percentage of the population have reduced themselves to intellectual cripples—and they have seemingly no comprehension of what they’ve lost. We are the age of voluntary critical-rational morons, and the more moronic the pronouncements of the liberal ‘intelligencia’, the more brilliant they are declaimed to be.
Sad, isn’t it?
unmitigated drivel
What an intelligent response.
You have a good day too.
I know the feeling.
Here’s a brilliant video on the subject:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c
Not a dull moment in it, and worth every second.
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