The Terrorism thread

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by YankBastard, Jul 24, 2016.

  1. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
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    Like everyone else you're not giving Chamberain the credit of knowing we didn't have a standing army or Airforce ready at the time. "You" should thank him for his part in being ready for the Battle of Britain.
     
  2. LastBoyscout

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    Mar 6, 2013

    Christianity ideally is not a factor in secular nations. So calling them "christan nations" is simply wrong. This repeated idea that christian values somehow lead to current western society is revisionist bullshit. Christianity has been a oppressive force for literally more than 1000 years in some regions of the world.

    If you stop ignorantly attributing western society as it exists today to Christianity I will stop calling you out for it.

    Also a question for you: In the last century have "Christian nations" been less murderous and brutal in the pursuit of their ideological and economic interests than the Islamic countries you call out right now?
     
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  3. JC-14

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    Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem.

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  4. JC-14

    JC-14 Member+

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    I attribute modern western society by and large as a result of the enlightenment and humanism.
     
  5. Bootsy Collins

    Bootsy Collins Player of the Year

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    I must not understand what you're saying, because I don't see how this response is relevant to what I said.
     
  6. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
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    As a non-Christian, all I can say is that you're 100% wrong.
     
  7. usscouse

    usscouse BigSoccer Supporter

    May 3, 2002
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    I know. Let's just put a world wide ban on religion.
    That'll solve everything.

    Until someone else comes up with a reason for killing ones neighbours.
     
  8. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
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    I think China came up with that
     
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  9. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

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    No, agreeing with you would be "being Chamberlain."
     
  10. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    No, by not agreeing with me you're doubling down on being Chamberlain.
     
  11. The Devil's Architect

    Feb 10, 2000
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    ********ing Animist
     
  12. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    I love the English language btw
     
  13. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

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    Man you sound like a social justice warrior complaining about the alt right.
     
  14. JC-14

    JC-14 Member+

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    Alahu akbar in Paris.

    871682844199985153 is not a valid tweet id
     
  15. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
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    Both are intolerant ideologies. The violence problem is just not as acute
     
  16. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

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    Russia(ussr), china, north korea, ect. Show that bans do not work, people take their superstitions underground or the religion changes to worship of the dear leader.

    You can not kill superstition by prohibition, only by education.
     
  17. The Devil's Architect

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    See, in America, all those nominally brown people would have been shot dead.

     
  18. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

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    Man imagine the shit this dude would say about black people after the furgeson and LA riots.
     
  19. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

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    Let's be quite clear about something, in the countries with marriage equality, the dominant Christian church opposed marriage equality. Marriage equality was established by the secular government against the wishes of the dominant Christian church. In the USA, the states that voted in marriage did so against the outspoken opposition of the major Christian churches (their are some Christian churches that favored it, for the record). The less church-going the public was, the more likely they would vote in marriage equality (this applies to the states that voted it in, rather than had it determined by courts). The more church-going the public was, the more likely they established state amendments to prohibit marriage equality.

    This is not Christianity v Islam, this is secularism v religion. I would also say most of those "Christian nations" as you call them are really "post-Christian nations".
     
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  20. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
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    Aussie comedian Jim Jefferies is getting a Comedy Central show. So they were showing some of his comedy bits. He pretends to chop a head off and looks at the audience and says "Here's something you never see - 'I do this in the name of...nothing!'" He's an atheist.
     
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  21. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

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    I have no animus towards animists. Makes about as much sense as any of these other dumbshit superstitions as far as I can tell.
     
  22. Sounders78

    Sounders78 Member+

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    Replacing the religion in the last sentence of that Sam Harris quote: "The only problem with Christian fundamentalism are [sic] the fundamentals of Christianity."

    Can't we agree both religions are problematic and that we would be better off without them?
     
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  23. Sounders78

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    Surely you have nothing against the Flying Spaghetti Monster in all its delicious noodleness!
     
  24. JC-14

    JC-14 Member+

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    We can and we do. Only thing that we disagree about is that Islam is even more dangerous and harmful at this time and that it's harder to reform (because of the differences between Jesus and Muhammad).
     
  25. The Devil's Architect

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    Whatever. I've seen your tumblr
     

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