cumbait -> RE: 12 dead in Paris (1/8/2015 7:02:05 AM)
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Left, right....who the hell cares? My thought is that the terms "left" and the "right" as some apply them, are intended roughly as euphemisms for the word "cheerleader" anyway....the thing is that innocent people are DEAD....because by all appearances, someone took "exception" to a cartoon poking fun at Islam. Matters not that it is the vaunted "religion of peace" at the helm, or if it is as one poster seems to believe - "rightists" trying to set up the Jihadists as victims of some sort of scam. Whether it be people bombing abortion clinics because they disagree on religious grounds with the concept of abortion, or people leveling buildings with jet planes because they want to send the "infidels" to hell - the REAL outrage ought to stem from the concept that "religion" has such a power over ANY group of people and that it can and will inspire people to kill and injure other human beings who do not follow what THEY believe is right. Perhaps the real instigator here is not a rightist or leftist....but the worship of a deity?. Matters not if the said "deity" is named Jehovah, or Jesus, or Allah, or Charles Manson, or Money....killing for that deity is pretty final....dead is dead. ..."do it in the name of heaven, and you can justify it in the end..." I have become increasingly wary of anyone with a strong religious bent to them, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, matters not. Realism says you cannot limit people's choice of how/what to worship - but if you are going to stand for religious liberty, this is the kind of stuff you will get - history proves that repeatedly. Allow and encourage people to take guidance from long-dead prophets, via books written centuries ago with the attending lack of relevance to a modern world, led by a deity no one can directly speak to or question - and this is what will happen. The name we attach to the religion, or to the people, or to their "left or right" leanings - mean nothing. People are dead. ....because of a fucking cartoon?????? Elizabeth
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