Is It Just Because I'm an Evil Atheist? (Koran-burning) | 45 comments (45 topical, 0 hidden)
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Daedalus is right.  

This pastor might just be doing this for a publicity stunt, or maybe he really does genuinely just think Islam is demonic, so he must "stand up" to Islam by doing something which is toothless and imbecilic.

But the way that the Right generally feels about an alll-out World War against Islam is "bring it on."  They believe that if we delay in fighting this existential war between "good" (Christians) and "evil" (Muslims), our continuing open borders and acceptance of "multi-culturalism&quo t; will soon lead to Sharia law becoming the law of the land in America.  These Christian warriors are aging--they don't want to wait 25 more years for the Great Christian/Muslim War for America--by then they might be too old and weak to still aim their gun properly.

There is no belief among the Right that any Muslim could ever be a friend to America or to Christians, or that any Muslim will ever speak out against Al Queda (and, according to FOX, none do).  so there is not the tiniest inkling that there could be a peaceful way forward, and this is why everything Muslim is seen as Nazi-esque.  

God damn what the stupid Constitution says about Freedom of Religion.

by Milltycoon on 09/09/2010 04:14:25 AM EST

Wrong oppositions (none / 0)
On the American site it's not (only) Christian fundamentalists, even though they make up a big part, but patriots.
At least compared to the Middle East America is a very secular country. Those people who are afraid of Sharia-law are not all Christians, many of them are atheists (or agnostics) who fear for "the American way", as you can see in this forum.
As far as I can see Hugh and Macmaline are not Christians and still they are the loudest, when it comes to fighting against this imagined threat.
When you would have made a poll among American soldiers in Iraq, what do you think, how many would have said that they are there to defend Christianity and how many because they consider it their patriotic duty?
I think the patriots would be at least 98%, even though some of them might also be Christians.

This is in my opinion true for all the war in world history, maybe with the exception of the crusades, even though financial and nationalistic motivations were probably at least as much of a motivation for the soldiers as religion was.

Therefore I think that patriotism is much more evil than religion, because without support from patriots religious wars would never be fought.

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 09/09/2010 09:03:29 AM EST

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