Will those who persist in their purblind insistence that religion has nothing to do with US global political and military actions please read this articleand reconsider!
EXACTLY! That's what I always say. And this "God" has no reality or objective existence outside the minds of the men [and women] who invented him. God is just a fairly tale, and a very evil one.
As Pascal said, "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
"Religious people of most faiths commit horrendous crimes, sometimes using their religion to justify them. Spiritual people never commit any crimes. if they do, they are not spiritual." - comment by 'Bamboo13' on Soumaya Ghannoushi's piece 'God is not dead' in the Guardian CiF, 9 November.
Well, Tyger, I get far too much garbage in my own inbox to want to be a regular subscriber to a site that has Oliver North [of Iran-Contra infamy]as a contributor, not to mention the lunatic scribblings of Ann Coulter!
Worth what? When you've been around as long as I have, you will know that clotted idiots of her stripe are ten a penny and oh so boring. As Mrs Thatcher once said, they should be starved of the oxygen of publicity.
God being used as Man's excuse to control and kill - what's new, AC ?
ReplyDeleteAnd I've just read that Tony Blair is converting to Catholicism...
ReplyDeleteNow that really does give God a bad name !
Man makes God in his own image...
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY! That's what I always say. And this "God" has no reality or objective existence outside the minds of the men [and women] who invented him. God is just a fairly tale, and a very evil one.
ReplyDeleteAs Pascal said, "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
"Religious people of most faiths commit horrendous crimes, sometimes using their religion to justify them. Spiritual people never commit any crimes. if they do, they are not spiritual." - comment by 'Bamboo13' on Soumaya Ghannoushi's piece 'God is not dead' in the Guardian CiF, 9 November.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.
ReplyDeleteAnitcant, you should check out Human Events. Maybe subscribe to the email alert - you should see the bollocks I get in my inbox.
Hoping you're well.
Well, Tyger, I get far too much garbage in my own inbox to want to be a regular subscriber to a site that has Oliver North [of Iran-Contra infamy]as a contributor, not to mention the lunatic scribblings of Ann Coulter!
ReplyDeleteoh, anticant, ms. coulter is worth it!
ReplyDeleteWorth what? When you've been around as long as I have, you will know that clotted idiots of her stripe are ten a penny and oh so boring. As Mrs Thatcher once said, they should be starved of the oxygen of publicity.
ReplyDeleteanticant, maybe so... but she does make me laugh (maybe I'm naive(?)).
ReplyDeleteBTW. The article was brilliant.