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Love Thy Neighbor
MindGate
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American Atheists sued New York for publicly endorsing Christianity (they funded the World Trade Center memorial in which a Christian crucifix was prominently displayed). These are a few responses from people.
http://i.imgur.com/4Tj9z.jpg
Isn't it wonderful that we can finally have civil conversations with each other and actually begin to love thy neighbor? Comments?
...Oh, wait, that isn't the case? Oh well.
http://i.imgur.com/4Tj9z.jpg
Isn't it wonderful that we can finally have civil conversations with each other and actually begin to love thy neighbor? Comments?
...Oh, wait, that isn't the case? Oh well.
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I suppose the key is that religion can give our anger and hate an outlet and grant it divine approval.
One God, one humanity.
kind of warms the cockles of your heart, don't it?
Say your prayers and pass the pistol....
(Not)?
Thank you.
"As a soldier we know we can't kill all the Muslims so it's our duty to win the hearts and minds of as many good moderate Muslims as we can."
I don't know whether whether to laugh or cry about this stuff
"I love Jesus, and the cross and if you don't, I hope someone rapes you!!"
ahaha laugh really hard
But anyway, going back to the original topic, WOAH! That is quite shocking to read to be honest, but after a few logical thoughts you can see why people would resort to such comments.
Firstly feelings will still be raw after what happened on 9/11, which does not make any such comments just. Add that to the fact people are a lot more open when they make comments on the internet as it is pretty faceless and you are likely to get people doing such things.
I am sure however that the majority of christians would not make such comments, or shall I say I would like to think so. If everybody followed the bibles words to the book so to speak, then they would not think in that way at all. But hey, we are all humans and far from perfect. When people find a religious meaning to their life, often they will be quick to start shouting it from a rooftop, or defend it with furiousity.
When I started to understand buddhism more and more, I actually grew to accept other religions more than I ever did being atheist. Religion for the most part is very much a positive thing in itself, but people often are the ones who taint religion, religion on it's own does not really have much fault.
It's not a good profile of what I'm sure most Christians would say.
But who needs good copy? It rarely sells....
And I would say, that in all probability, not every person who died in the twin towers incident, was Christian, or even believed in God at all..So maybe it's more of an insult towards them, than anything - or anyone else..... But there.
If I had died in there, on that day, I wouldn't really care right now, one way or the other....
simple.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/ex-rep-paul-kanjorski-d-pa-fla-gov-rick-scott-they-ought-put-him-
"A spoiled child (Bush) is telling us our Social Security isn’t safe anymore, so he is going to fix it for us. Well, here’s your answer, you ungrateful whelp: [audio sound of 4 gunshots being fired.] Just try it, you little b*stard. [audio of gun being cocked]." — A "humor bit" from the Randi Rhodes Show
"..And then there’s Rumsfeld who said of Iraq ‘We have our good days and our bad days.’ We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say ‘This is one of our bad days’ and pull the trigger." — From a fundraising ad put out by the St. Petersburg Democratic Club
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health" — New York city councilman Charles Barron
"I believe in ecoterrorism." — James Cameron
"…In an ideal world, American consumers could be convinced to do the right thing through an appeal to logic with public service messages like the ‘What Would Jesus Drive?’ TV campaign, but the kind of people who would buy a car that increases the risk to other motorists in an accident can’t be reasoned with. They’re selfish and stupid. It’s unfortunate that drivers must worry that their SUVs are being targeted by insulting stickers and Molotov cocktails, but one thing’s for sure: It couldn’t be happening to a more deserving group of people." — Ted Rall winks at ecoterrorism
"F*** God D*mned Joe the God D*mned Motherf*cking plumber! I want Motherf*cking Joe the plumber dead." — Liberal talk show host Charles Karel Bouley on the air.
"Republicans don’t believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don’t give a hoot about human beings, either can’t or won’t. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm." — The Village Voice’s Michael Feingold, in a theater review of all places
(Rush Limbaugh)" just wants the country to fail. To me that’s treason. He’s not saying anything different than what Osama Bin Laden is saying. You might want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight. … Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I hope his kidneys fail, how about that?" — Wanda Sykes
"O&A – ‘Condoleezza Rice’"
Charlie – "I’d love to f— that b*tch dude" (laughter)
Charlie – "She’s the F—in man"
O&A – "yeah"
Charlie – "I’d F…that b*tch…."
O&A – "I just imagine the horror in Condoleezza Rice’s face…."
- "(laughter) ….. as she realizes what’s going on"
- "…as you were just holding her down and F’n her."
Charlie – "punch her all the F’n face, shut the F— up b*tch"
O&A – "that’s exactly what I meant" (laughter in background)
Charlie – "you know F— it …. and George Bush wife? I’d F— that b*tch to death" — "Shock Jocks" Opie & Anthony talk rape & violence with their guest "Homeless Charlie."
"Drudge? Aw, Drudge, somebody ought to wrap a strong Republican entrail around his neck and hoist him up about six feet in the air and watch him bounce." — Liberal radio host, Mike Malloy
"I know how the ‘tea party’ people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their ‘Obama Plan White Slavery’ signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads." — The Washington Post’s Courtland Milloy
It's a most heartening thing to see Americans from all sides citing free speech as an excuse for being loudmouthed, uncouth, indecent, disgusting and frankly completely deplorable specimens of humanity.
They cry "We have a democratic right to Free speech!" and seem to get away with verbal murder.
Land of the brave and home of the free, indeed.
When did free speech equal "any idiot can open his mouth and absolve himself of all repsonsibility for whacko ideas that come out of it, because of the First Amendment".....?
I'm sure it was never written or intended in this way.
I'm glad that I don't live anywhere near middle America or wherever these people are.....
I think of political discussions like football fans... people get so wrapped up in defending their side/team that they feel they have to step up their talk if they hear the other side talking crap... after the stepping up in verbal attacks from both sides, you soon have some pretty ugly talk going on. Not that they mean that their team is actually going to decapitate the opposing quarterback, but they almost had to say it because the other side took them there with their ugly attacks.
i never understood how people could be so ignorant before, but once i learned about confirmation bias, it began to make a lot more sense. people don't typically look for an objective view... we all look to support our already established conclusions and our minds carefully filter the information to feed our previously held assumptions.
when you add religion in the mix, it just gets that much worse. many of those comments involve crucifixion because the connection in their minds is what non-believers did to their savior. to them, atheists have now become the same people who nailed jesus on the cross and therefore, they want retaliation because this was a very real event in their minds with a strong emotional connection. you could almost say it was a trigger.