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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I've normally tried to reserve my anger for specific actors and not wide swaths of people.. But Jesus.. Someone needs to instruct these people (with bullets, if necessary) that theocracy is the reason their nations have remained sh*tholes since the crusades. And before. I feel like it'll be a thousand years before these people find their own Grotius, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Kant, etc. When they find their own Jefforson, perhaps they'll look back in shame. Or perhaps, we'll have to wipe them off the face of Earth before they ever get the chance.


5 posted on 02/03/2006 1:20:21 AM PST by ivyleaguebrat
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To: ivyleaguebrat

Jefferson...


6 posted on 02/03/2006 1:20:55 AM PST by ivyleaguebrat
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They can't find any of the above because Islam is fundamentally a theocracy, at its root. There is no other way for it to be.

Christianity has always regarded itself as separate from earthly powers, something which has frequently annoyed the earthly powers. There have been times when the State has been able to use the Church or vice versa, but these are abuses and are always corrected quickly because of the fundamental dynamic of Christianity.

Furthermore, Islam is literalist and allows no interpretation of its scriptures, which are pretty crazy to begin with. Christianity has always allowed for interpretation of the Bible, leaving aside a few sects like snake-handlers in the mountains or something hardly representative.

By contrast, every time a more "moderate" less literal form of Islam shows up, it is promptly stamped out - by other Muslims.


14 posted on 02/03/2006 4:11:24 AM PST by livius
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