Re: Religion Instead of Science

thomas p wrote:
> 
> 
> That really has no relevance to what I was saying.  The claim was made
> that only Moslems, of all the religions of the world, have been
> intolerant.  I showed that that was not true. 

That is true. But Moslems lead the world in car bombs, IED-s, terrorist 
attacks on innocent civillians. When a bomb goes off in the market place 
during the busiest time of the day the probability that it is a Moslem 
bomb is about .95



> If you are going to
> excuse murder and the destruction of property because of crimes
> committed centuries ago, you will share the reasoning of all the
> violent sectarians in the world.  Nobody's hands are completely clean,
> especially if you are willing to go back centuries and hold people
> today responsible for the crimes committed back then and for all the
> crimes committed by others just because the share the same label -
> White, Black, European, Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu and so on.

But we don't live back then. We live now. To are great extent 
Christiantiy has become more secular and less toxic than it has been in 
the past. I cannot speak for the Budhists or the Hindus on that matter. 
The Jews have had the **** kicked out of them for so long they are now 
(comparitively) humble and loveable.

The problem with bringing up the past is that we come to the conclusion 
that we are all Son's of *****es and that noone has a right to judge 
anyone else. That kind of moral equivocation can only lead to paralysis 
and failure of will. Warts and all the West is still way better than the 
Moslems and it always has been. Al Islam has been a pus boil on the hide 
of the human race since the Battle of the Ditch.

In the West they invented operations to take out inflamed appnedices. In 
the Moslem countries they invented operations to remove the ****orises 
of females. There go your Moslems, Thomas. Different God, different 
mountain.

Bob Kolker