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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (272619)	1/11/2010 1:48:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

How about Mars? He was a pretty tough dude, worthy of worship and god-fearing: <Essentially, that no deity worth worshiping would encouraging coercing others to worship said deity. > He didn't mess about. Any disagreement, it was war! Allah is Martian too. Martian? Oh well, I guess so. No mucking about with Allah. It's believe or else it's war. Stoning, scimitar. The consequences of denial are fatal. All infidels shall be brought under the sword of Jihad. Allah has got a billion people going along with that idea. That's a quorum. To be precise, it wasn't exactly Allah who said that, it was Mohammed's interpretation of what he was told and which he wrote, or perhaps it was his interpreters who wrote the Koran which is the manual for Islamic Jihad and conquest of all infidels and everything. It's interesting that Mein Kampf isn't allowed to be published in Germany but the Koran is. Yet both advocate genocide of large numbers of people who disagree and the Koran advocates dire consequences for the current political system in Germany. Maybe Germans can't read it so are unaware of what's planned for them. Mqurice

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (272619)	1/11/2010 2:00:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Reading my father's WWII diary, he didn't have any time for the mealy-mouthed chaplain who put a religious slant on the conflict. My father had volunteered to go and stop Hitler because he had to be stopped, not to run a religious campaign. <That's why I would often find myself a bit uncomfortable when a "religious context" was put on some of the missions our guys were running. > He also had no time for the marching and saluting training aka square bashing. He thought a LOT more time spent learning how to shoot was better. He was school champion rifle shooting and he said that the standard of shooting was appalling in the troops. Mqurice