I applaud your objectivity Blargeo. Howe'er its difficult not to become sentimental about these issues. These sentiments emanate from love, pain, helplessness and hope. We are not as sophisticated as we think, especially when terror gets too close for comfort, and you cannot be thankful that none of yours is affected because of those whose loved ones have been killed. Maybe its time to blame our helplessness regarding situations we are all responsible for as humans one way or the other.
On 28 Jul 2013 14:41, <blargeo.dekeye@gmail.com> wrote:--Dear Ola and all,
I am almost innure to the frenzied (foaming at the mouth) passion provoked by religion and any attempt at or dicussions on religious issues; but nobody not even the dead are spared from landslides.
Without equivocation, Christianity like Islam and Judaism are killer religions. Their scriptures are filled with divinely sanctioned genocides, human sacrifice, cruelty to children, women and other races.
If Islam has trumped the other two in the scale of killings in recent times it is because the west was recently able to separate religion from the state (to a large extent). The blood thirst of the theocracy in the Arab world is rivalled only by the christian dark ages and its biblery popery.
Nothing in this world, apart from nationalism, takes men back to the hobbessian state than the 3 Abramaic religions. Thus it is condescending to hear a Jew or christian say "I have met good moslems, civil moslems or refined moslems". Most adherents of these faiths are first adherents by birth, conviction comes
later after years of indoctrination and being force fed the story of dysfunctional Hebrew people and their gods.
I think the only people who can objectively engage religion without wishing cyber burning at the stake or ibombing on fellow contributors are those whose minds have been fed and constantly nourished by broad literature. Those who believe in the fairy tale of winged horses and virgin conceptions; a pimp gods who organises virgins (obviously underraged) and rapture should be feared equally. There is no telling what they can do for their god!
Happily I am a lapsed christian and none the worse for it.
Blargeo
... And that is all she wrote!
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________________________________From: olakassimmd@aol.comDate: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:55:18 -0400 (EDT)ReplyTo: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.comSubject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Nigeria: Boko Haram, poverty, Jonathan and the game of musical chairs
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