...I feel sick.
"Enforced exclusion", "quarantine of carriers", "eradication of foci of infection" and "immunization"....
These were words used to describe how one commenter - on another blog - wants to deal with Islam. By checking his blog I infer he is aligned with the British National Front.
He had the nerve... the supreme hypocrisy... to preface this by comparing Islam to the Nazis.
He was duly counter-commented...by someone who wants to destroy every church in America because apparently all Christians are fascists.
"My... yes, we will have such a tolerant world after everyone different has been dealt with?"
And when the faith of atheism begins its own crusade... don't count on me.
Kind of related - are you seeing the heat that Obama is getting for him defending the right of a muslim place of worship to be built near ground zero?
ReplyDeleteOf course, it's a touchy subject for many, but those people should try and realise that Obama is trying to defend the exact type of thing that the terrorists were wanting to destroy. It's depressing that wider US community don't see this.
Freedom of religion - just not that one.
Magpie,
ReplyDeleteI think the counter-commenter was trying to get the anti-Muslim guy to think about what he was really suggesting, by putting the shoe on the other foot. On the other hand, I must say that, as an American taxpayer in a country where churches do not pay taxes, I am pretty incensed about having to help pay for an organization that seems to be a factory for child molesters. Thinking about that sort of thing can get you pretty angry, and could lead a lot of people to make intemperate comments.
neutral, perosnal spiritualism would be a nice change in the world, rather than all this "mine is right and yours is not" shit.
ReplyDeleteGreen Eagle,
ReplyDeleteI almost commented underneath all that, but figured it would just encourage more of it.
The author of what I quoted above is the real badness. A white supremacist xenophobic thug. Not some harmless Derek Foley.
I realise that the counter comment about “Christian fascists” had a rhetorical angle, ... but he wasn’t completely kidding either.
As you know, I personally have no religious beliefs at all. But religions aren’t all just belly-laugh collections of bizarre tales and cosmologies. They are the collected traditions of whole peoples, civilisations and cultures. Everything they have been, feared, loved and suffered.
I’ve seen many Shinto weddings. Not an Abrahamic religion, but a spirituality that is mostly positive.
Saw a Jewish wedding once. Thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.
@Sue:
ReplyDeleteObama just can't win - I feel so sorry for him. In one of the brief TV news grabs I saw, he specifically said something along the lines that he defends their right to build ...even if he doesn't necessarily think it's the best of ideas himself.
I haven't seen a resolution to this yet, but I really do hope he stands his ground.
As for Magpie feeling sick...
I must say I'm concerned. I'm relatively new to this particular blog of his, but I've known him for over 10 years now (yikes, where did the time go).
In all that time, it has pretty much always been me with the defeatist, negative attitude towards humanity's future rising above any type of existence that isn't self centred (sadly I'm still convinced that's the way we are and will always be built).
I can't count the number of times where he's endeavoured to have me think past this to the type of utopia we could have if we got passed all that.
I gotta say...reading some of the stuff he posts about here (and obviously what else he's seeking out on the web) I worry that he's going to give up and agree with me.
That'll be the day.
ReplyDeleteThis is why good people like you must continue to blog reality
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your kindness, Tom.
ReplyDeleteI'll stick with Taoism. It's very laidback and that's what I aspire to.
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