Posted on 01/23/2005 8:58:36 AM PST by Lindykim
I was taught that the Crusades were a bad thing...an attempt by the Church to consolidate its power.
However, considering all we are learning of Islam lately, I am beginning to think (although no martial effort is without collateral damage) that the Crusades saved Europe from a scourge worse than the Black Death.
He's probably in jail.
Sick .. so sad. I hope our nation wakes up. If guilty, this couple needs to be made sterile immediately and locked up forever.
No matter...these animals still must be put down, if guilty.
However, you then had to degenerate to this...
"And because of this fairytale screed, radical Islam, Wicca, Budhism, {Satanism?}, Gaia worship, and all other pantheist beliefs have been made equal to our traditional Christian worldview. Of course, if these other belief systems truly were equal, then each of them would have been able to found a nation like the US, at least one time during the history of mankind. But truth shows otherwise. None of them have ever been able to do anything other than to keep mankind in bondage to the whims and fancies of whoever happened to be most powerful. So the multiculturalists are nothing but liars, and these pantheistic beliefs are nothing but the playthings of whoever dwells at the top of the heap."
You, like the anti-gunners, are using a sick criminal event to justify a particularly insidious form of bigotry.
Surely yiou are aware that, in the US, all religions are welcome so long as they do NOT violate the rights of others. And you MUST be aware that, under our laws and Constitution, all religions ARE equal in the eyes of the government in that it cannot promote any over another.
Your tactics, whilst quite classic in propaganda history, are nontheless disturbing in this day and age.
You mean like the pagan Greeks and their democracy, or the pagan Romans and their constitutional republic?
Don't Homer Simpson and his family live in Springfield?
I'd snap their frickin necks when I hung them.
Ah. And so it must be that the establishment of a religion is the same as, say, the promotion of a particular religion.
An interesting idea, I suppose. Entirely false, of course, but interesting.
Don't tell the courts. They've disagreed for many decades.
If the government (i.e., taxpayers) promotes one religion over others, it is by definition "establishing" a religion. By what possible logic should a Jew pay for the promotion of Christianity? A Christian for Islam? An atheist for ANY of them?
And why in the WORLD do you think it would be a good idea to divide Americans in that manner?
As far as the Crusades go, please take a look at this article and re-orient yourself as to what happened and why.
These people were "pagans" the same way Torquemada was a Christian.
Regarding "neopaganism", I think it was G.K. Chesterton who wrote "First you dabble with the demons and, in the end, the demons dabble with you."
Googled the perps names and got this link to the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
http://www.cleveland.com/crime/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/iscri/110484187319640.xml
It appears Springfield Township is close to Akron. Also the story is basically the same one that is posted here, but I thought this might be of interest to those wondering, as I was, WHERE did this happen?
No. When found guilty, they should be beaten to death. Not hung. Not lethal injection. Beaten to death with lead pipes or baseball bats. I am a firm believe in doing what we can to make the punishment fit the crime.
The Pagan Karmic Debt crede of "whatsoever you do returns to you three-fold" should apply to their death sentance if possible.
I've been "dabbling" for around 15 years now. Still no demons.
Well, some multiculturalists would put it this way: "All religions and/or belief systems are the same and therefore equally deserving of disrespect, insensitivity, exclusion, and intolerance."
Yes, I'm just being contrary!
Excellent job thanks!
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