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pink sasquatch Member (Idle past 6023 days) Posts: 1567 Joined: |
I wasn't being political. George W. talks about God every time he mentions the war in Iraq - is that a biased or political statement?
My point was - non-Christian religions are called radical by Christians when their members mention their god in a paramilitary situation, yet somehow most Christians consider it absolutely different for Christian government leaders. I'm not saying this is unique to Christians, it appears to be true for most religions - which goes a long way to explain inter-religion strife and radicalism.
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custard Inactive Member |
pink sasquatch writes: As I side note, I'm trying to remember the last time I heard on the news any Muslim actually stating that the reason they were doing something horrific was "in the name of Allah" Odd, I was thinking the exact opposite - I have never heard a Muslim clip without a reference to God unless the clip was a short sound bite. Could that be because the translators don't always bother to translate it? Or are you referring to English speaking muslims? Your GWB comment is true, and I didn't find it to be partisan, merely a statement of fact. I can remember no other recent President, not even Clinton or Reagan, who has invoked God as frequently as GWB does.
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JonF Member (Idle past 168 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
What i mean is that all i see on T.V are muslims killing themselves & others in the name of Allah. And, of course, what you see today on TV is all that counts. What you don't see doesn't exist, what happened last year doesn't count, nothing means anything but your biased perceptions of here and now. Pitiful. What about Northern Ireland? Catholics and Protestans blew each other up, slaughtered little children, carried out countless atrocities, for decades ...and both sides did it in the name of the Christian God. But it means nothing to you because you don't see it on TV today. Pitiful.
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paisano Member (Idle past 6423 days) Posts: 459 From: USA Joined: |
No, not biased or political. I just don't attach undue significance to GWB's God talk, or think it necessarily implies he views the Iraq conflict as a holy war. ( I think it's being conducted for mostly geostrategic reasons, some valid, some questionable, but that's another thread in the making).
I think he lays it on a bit thick with the God talk (and I'm Catholic) but I see it as just a personal quirk. And a a lot of it is largely for public consumption (the religious right is a big chunk of GWB's supporters, though by no means his sole supporters). Looking back in history, Abe Lincoln has a lot of God talk in his speeches, but in his private writings and conversations, his religious views seem Deist at most. A lot of it was just for public consumption.
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pink sasquatch Member (Idle past 6023 days) Posts: 1567 Joined: |
I just don't attach undue significance to GWB's God talk, or think it necessarily implies he views the Iraq conflict as a holy war. Exactly. That's the point I'm trying to make - in light of comments from others in the forum, that suggest that talk of religion during a military action means that the action is supported and condoned by that religion's teachings and followers. Specifically, if a terrorist mentions Allah, he is following the mainstream tenets of Islam when he attacks - which is a misconception. An anti-US Iraqi might believe that George W. is leading a Holy War after hearing his many mentions of God - that would also be a misconception. Both misconceptions are likely aided by religious xenophobia.
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pink sasquatch Member (Idle past 6023 days) Posts: 1567 Joined: |
Odd, I was thinking the exact opposite - I have never heard a Muslim clip without a reference to God unless the clip was a short sound bite. Maybe I'm not listening close enough, or to the right sources... But my point was meant to be that the cause of much of the struggle/attacks seems to be much more based in anti-American sentiment than in pro-Allah sentiment, if that makes sense. I've heard statements that ended with "praise Allah" just as many US leaders end their statements with "God bless." I think that returns to the distinction of a homogeneous religious culture that happens to be at war, and a culture that is at war simply for religion's sake.
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paisano Member (Idle past 6423 days) Posts: 459 From: USA Joined: |
I think that what you are saying makes sense to a degree. It's probably more fundamental than anti-Americanism, more like anti-superpowerism.
I suggest that if China, for instance, was the #1 superpower and had heavy presence in the Persain Gulf militarily, we'd see a similar range of anti-Chinese views.
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Hangdawg13 Member (Idle past 751 days) Posts: 1189 From: Texas Joined: |
Many people derive moral principles from their own internal feelings and respect for others. Aha! this is where many people also derive immoral principles. You are saying all standards of right and wrong are based on our own subjective perceptions of reality, which can be very skewed by emotion, personal bias, and personal arrogance.
as we have seen, some people drive immoral principles from the Bible, the Q'uran, or any other religious book or principle. As you have just stated people derive their principles (moral or immoral from their own subjective experience). People often take their principles and put the face of a religion on it to acquire more followers, instead of actually following that religion's original moral standard.
You need to find morality and respect for others from within or you're just putting on a false face. What?!? How can you objectively evaluate your own subjectivity??? This is stupid! True objectivity is looking to a source outside yourself for moral truth. Subjectivity is looking either to your own experience, emotions, or feelings. Subjectivity also looks to religion to try to fit it with your own experience, emotions, or feelings: THIS IS HOW RELIGIONS BECOME RADICLE!!!
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
but still have not answered the question I asked in Message 18 and again in Message 23.
If there is an outside objective moral standard, what is it? Please, can you list one? It cannot be something general like "follow God's teachings" since the nature, existence and identity of God will vary depending on the belief structure of the person you ask. Personally, I believe that there is one but I have yet to see you or anyone else point to such a critter. Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 735 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Western nations like Australia and U.S.A were blessed and prospered as they based there understanding on Gods word. Yeah. Ask the Australian aborigines that were hunted down like dogs about that "understanding." Ask the Iroquoian women and babies that the colonists in New York presented with smallpox-infested blankets. Ask the Seminoles, and the Cherokees, and the Souix. Fuckin' A, man! Get a wisp of a clue before you start typing! The folks you mentioned prospered because they took all that good land from its former inhabitants. And they killed as many of them as it took to get it!
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Cold Foreign Object  Suspended Member (Idle past 3048 days) Posts: 3417 Joined: |
Hey Cory !
Sorry to interrupt, you were right, they loved my God sense arguments Willowtree
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Hangdawg13 Member (Idle past 751 days) Posts: 1189 From: Texas Joined: |
Sleeping Dragon and I had a long, long, exhausting debate on this in the thread on Satan and evil. I don't want to go into it again.
I'm glad you do believe in an absolute moral truth. I was beginning to think... well nevermind.
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almeyda Inactive Member |
quote: Oops, I stand corrected you are right. Dont forget the evolutionists who hacked up Aboriginies to send to England as missing links!.
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matt_dabbs Inactive Junior Member |
almeyda:
Oops, I stand corrected you are right. Dont forget the evolutionists who hacked up Aboriginies to send to England as missing links!. What!? Where did you get this from? "The religion of the invisible pink unicorn is based both on faith and logic...through faith we know that the unicorn is pink, while logic tells us it is invisible."
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JonF Member (Idle past 168 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Oops, I stand corrected you are right. Dont forget the evolutionists who hacked up Aboriginies to send to England as missing links!.
What!? Where did you get this from? Where else? Answers in Geneses. Darwin's Bodysnatchers. Of courese, Almeyda swallows evcerything from AIG so quickly that he doesn't think at all ...
quote:{emphasis added} Note that the "perhaps" allows them to publish unsupported allegations and fool the gullible. Of course, to Almeyda "perhaps" means "definitely". The article goes on to draw almost exclusively from an article in The Bulletin, an Australian newsmagazine somwhat akin to Time or Newsweek. Possibly but necessarily a trustworthy source. The allegations may or may not be true; AIG obviously isn't interested in finding out, since the propaganda value of their suppositions is much more interesting to them than the truth. It seems liklely to me that the stories are tremendously overblown but based on a few real incidents. Nonetheless, whether or not the incidents occurred, they are not linked in any credible way to the theory of evolution, and they are on a par with the things done in the name of one God or another and already mentioned in this thread. Evil people do evil things under whatever banner suits them, and that includes the Bible.
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