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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (19899)5/6/2005 10:48:37 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
I appreciate your analysis of the underdog mentality. You realize (of course) that most of the suicide bombs do not target Americans.

I still believe it is a cowardly way to strive for POWER and CONTROL. Cowardice and bravery are not simply words. They refer to actual behaviors. And I think indiscriminate bombing of restaurants and the like where innocent people must necessarily be destroyed is cowardice in the extreme.

And it comes from a superstitious mentality where an afterlife is believed in and where there are good guys and bad guys based on which God they believe in. It is a poor reason for hating and killing people. It is a poor reason for killing Jews, it is a poor reason for killing Kurds--and it is a poor reason for killing anyone.



To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (19899)5/6/2005 11:33:41 AM
From: average joe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 28931
 
"neither are a Christian endeavor"

How can you be sure?

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring PEACE to the earth. I did not come to bring PEACE, but a sword. For I have come to turn a 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, a man's enemies will be the members of his own household." Matthew 10:34 - 36: