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But Islam is the Number 1 cause of Terrorism
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THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting this useful and truthful piece.
Islamic wars are not discrete conflagrations including intra-Islamic wars. Wars between Mohammedans and Infidels are all part of one war that began with Mohammed himself and will continue until there are no Infidels or until there are no Mohammedans.
Repeat a lie often enough and loud enough....
Interesting conclusion ... if true ... that non-islam religion-driven wars = islam religion-driven wars. I realize this doe snot include violent terrorism but I would have expected the percentage of islam-driven wars to be greater.
Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
Pol Pot - 2,397,0003
Many atheists will vehemently deny atheism was to blame to such things as the atrocities of Stalin, while equally contending Hitler was a Christian.
Yet under atheism, there is no material transcendent standard for morality, as was the case for Stalin, Pol Pot, etc., but what seems reasonable to the atheism determines what is best.
And as it is evident that man with worship something or someone, the created (which will fail and mislead) or the Creator, the effect of atheism includes the "political religion" they blame for Stalins murders.
And "political religion" is much what we see here in post Christian America.
And thanks for the post (Prot source no less).
When a leader decides to take his nation to war, he has his own personal motives of pride, greed, hunger for power, etc. But he needs to sell both the men he expects to fight for him and the civilians he expects to pay for it.
So the leader appeals to whatever will motivate. That might be fear or religion or patriotism or whatever.
Iraq example.
Bush clearly had a different motivation than Cheney. But they needed to “sell it to congress”. So they replayed Clintons fear-mongering about Sadam’s WMDs. Most Dems have a fear of WMDs out of proportion to reality. Just as with guns they give morality to inanimate WMDs, rather than the people who possess them. So most Dems supported the war in Iraq for different reasons than Bush and Cheney.
Then when we can’t find Sadam’s WMDs they blame Bush for their own demons. The Left’s fear of inanimate objects is a religion that leads to war or at least is partially responsible.
Civil War example. Numerous Republican religious abolitionists supported the John Brown approach and helped push the North into the civil war and successfully pushed the buttons of the south so the south did what the abolitionists wanted...make war to save the union the viable option for many who were not abolitionists. Religion played a central role in starting the civil war.
There were Amish/Mennonites/Quakers who converted to Wesleyan Methodist or other denomination because they thought slavery was so evil violence was justified and the non-violence of their previous church was un-christian.
Freindly Persuasion was Reagan’s favorite movie because it defined the struggle between fighting injustice suffered by others and minding one’s own salvation and staying out of other’s.
Joseph Stalin - 42,672,000
Mao Zedong - 37,828,000
Adolf Hitler - 20,946,000
Chiang Kai-shek - 10,214,000
Vladimir Lenin - 4,017,000
Hideki Tojo - 3,990,000
Pol Pot - 2,397,0003
Isaiah 14
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Nothing more than man in his own righteousness and greatness in his own eyes, he said he was going to get there but he never even got close.
Remind you of Hitler and Stalin and the others who did weaken the nations?
bkmk