• South park VS Islam
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[QUOTE=Scope0;22046775]If you're kept up with Thunderfoot's videos this is related to the cause. [/QUOTE] Hahaha, excellent. Oh yeah, so they want to prevent ANY image of Muhammad from appearing on the Internet? Oh, I'd LOVE to see them try. Glad to see the this South Park issue has become so far-reaching. As my wildest dreams had hoped, outrage over the censorship has manifested as a combined protest against extreme Islamic intimidation, and they most certainly are reacting to it. Not that there was much doubt they would, I mean I've never known them to ignore ANYTHING that criticizes them and their Medieval methods before, so why would they start now, right? Tell me, how nuts would it be if South Park of all things, were to be written down in history as the satirical cartoon that spurred a collective protest on a little website called Facebook, which would ALSO be written down as having spurred a violent terrorist backlash so uncalled for and so domineering in nature that it prompted the world at large to finally stop with the cold feet and actually DEAL with the ever present, ever irrelevant threat of theocracy in the 21st century. Unlikely? Well, yeah, but wouldn't it be awesome? Especially since it means that our proactive support here on the Internet would count as direct involvement? I mean sure, it wouldn't be like helping take San Juan Hill or something, but just being a part of it would be a fond memory to have.
In my opinion religions are keeping mankind back in the process of developing into the future, for example. When Galeleo Galelei came up with his theory about the sun was in the center of the solar system, the church just denied and threated to kill him. Mankind should abandon these silly religious belives. It's doing nothing than keeping us back. Then I mean all religions, not any special. But this is just my opinion.
[QUOTE=MILKE;22050153]In my opinion religions are keeping mankind back in the process of developing into the future, for example. When Galeleo Galelei came up with his theory about the sun was in the center of the solar system, the church just denied and threated to kill him. Mankind should abandon these silly religious belives. It's doing nothing than keeping us back. Then I mean all religions, not any special. But this is just my opinion.[/QUOTE] I don't wholly agree. Religions have outdated, Barbaric content in them, but nowadays very few people still apply themselves to those aspects, and often only refer back to them when they want to grasp at straws by trying to justify a backsliding, backwards opinion they hold with something someone once said that MIGHT have alluded to their circumstance. And this applies to many things, including homosexuality. And you won't hear me argue for any of that shit, no. Trying to justify something you know in your gut to be wrong but do anyway, by quoting some text that hints without giving any logical argument for it, that the almighty infinitely loving and benevolent God you claim to believe in might side with you being and staying a douchebag? That's bullshit, right down the line, and in my mind even more heinous than just admitting you're a jackass and telling everyone else to suck it, because at least you're being honest about. I'm a Christian and I reject the notion that my God thinks like that if he actually exists. Does this maybe gloss over the kind of stuff that IS in the Bible and other scriptures that lead to the shitstorm that is the Middle East? You could look at it that way I guess, but really I call it rejection of the negative and outdated facets of my religion's philosophy, and embracing the surprising amount that after all this time has stayed gold, most of it from the mouth of Jesus. After all, being Christian means, and should mean, that I'm choosing not only to believe Jesus existed or was the son of God, but that by extension, the amendments he made as what I endearingly refer to as The First Hippy, all about giving peace a chance, not judging, offering the other cheek, and abandoning our pomp, circumstance and pride in favor of humility, overrule everything that preceded it. In the end, religion exists to tell people that good and evil are more than just words, that while ambiguity abounds and nobody can possibly know what motivates everyone, that there is worth and something worth defending about treating others as you wish to be treated. But most of all, it's about hope. To tell people otherwise adrift and directionless that there might just be meaning to their lives, that they MIGHT one day see a perfect world, that they MIGHT live on forever, that their loved ones may not TRULY have left them for good, and that the wicked of the world might be subject to justice in the end. I know, to those of you disillusioned, it seems naive, and it is, sure. But bad? Nah, not really, not at the heart of it. Misguided, certainly. But as simpler as it would be to decide this world is entirely what we take at face value, I want to believe there's something bigger than us at work. Hope springs eternal I guess, but then I've always been a hopeless romantic.
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;22038559]Whos fueling your economy with gas, oil and many other products you deem essential?[/QUOTE] 1. Extremists get many resources from the U.S. trying keep up with the demand of oil... Why do you think we are trying to find alternative fuels now? 2. Isn't practically everything we buy made from China these days? :911:
Most Muslims hate terrorists and extremists, I know, because I myself am muslim, but you will ignore this post and read what you want to read, why? Because you have bullshit pumped into your heads about "AAL MUZ-LIMZ R TURRISTS AUND WEE MUST DEFEND AMURICA", enjoy being onesided and thick as fuck.
[QUOTE=mchapra;22059926]Most Muslims hate terrorists and extremists, I know, because I myself am muslim, but you will ignore this post and read what you want to read, why? Because you have bullshit pumped into your heads about "AAL MUZ-LIMZ R TURRISTS AUND WEE MUST DEFEND AMURICA", enjoy being onesided and thick as fuck.[/QUOTE] I think I've made it quite clear that this is not MY position.
[QUOTE=mchapra;22059926]Most Muslims hate terrorists and extremists, I know, because I myself am muslim, but you will ignore this post and read what you want to read, why? Because you have bullshit pumped into your heads about "AAL MUZ-LIMZ R TURRISTS AUND WEE MUST DEFEND AMURICA", enjoy being onesided and thick as fuck.[/QUOTE] Well from what I've heard the exact opposite is true. In fact, some of them actively say that they would love to see "America fall to the will of Islam". (saying this very quote disgusts me) Many moderate Muslims never condone the attack of extremists, but they never really say anything against them either. But as soon as one person questions or insults their beliefs, we end up with picket signs and flag burning. Also, just because you are one Muslim individual with an opinion, doesn't mean that the majority of the Muslim community agrees with you. [IMG]http://myminddroppings.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/moderate_muslim.jpg[/IMG] We're just lucky that people are becoming quick to respond to threats on our soil, and that some of the people attacking us don't always know what the hell they're doing.
I hate how my country's only reason for fame, is because we've drawn an image of some god that 80% of the world doesn't know nor care about.
Fucking old.
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