nitro, you should read this.. http://www.alternet.org/election-20...pocalyptic-vision-and-desire-end-times-battle and this... http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
Thanks. I know of the Atlantic article. None of this is new to me. Like most religious fanatics, these people are hypnotized by their beliefs. Like their fundamental Christian and Jewish counterparts, they are slaves to what some people made up several hundred years ago and call it God to control other people and give meaning to their lives, twisted and warped as it may be. I have come to the belief that if religion didn't exist, these people would invent some other reason to kill and impose their will on other people. It is just that religion is particularly good at shutting down the reasoning centers of human beings.
assuming they had those reasoning centers to start with Man is not rational merely capable of it (but not in every instance).
'Daily News' provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this' "The front cover of New York's Daily News for Thursday takes a strong stance against how some politicians are reacting to the San Bernardino shooting with calls for prayer instead of tighter gun control laws. The headline says, "God Isn't Fixing This." "As latest batch of innocent Americans are left lying in pools of blood, cowards who could truly end gun scourge continue to hide behind meaningless platitudes," the cover reads..." http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/break...ng-god-isnt-fixing-this/ar-AAfXrhd?li=BBnbcA1
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/rep...is-strength-while-they-rip-the-country-apart/ For reasons hard to fathom, the Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and secede from the Union. They will do so with bullying, lies and manipulation, a willingness to say anything, no matter how daft or wrong. They will do so by spending unheard of sums to buy elections with the happy assistance of big business and wealthy patrons for whom the joys of gross income inequality are a comfortable fact of life. By gerrymandering and denying the vote to as many of the poor, the elderly, struggling low-paid workers, and people of color as they can. And by appealing to the basest impulses of human nature: anger, fear and bigotry. Bill Moyers God help us
What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, published in Saturday Evening Post, October 26 1919 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/what_life_means_to_einstein.pdf “Shortly after his 50th birthday, Einstein was interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. Viereck asked Einstein if he was an atheist to which Einstein said "I'm not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws." One of the most interesting answers Einstein gave to Viereck was his response to how Christianity had influenced him. Einstein said "I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. I accept the historical Jesus. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."
That guy is an Einstein... brilliant observations... indicts almost every lefty here on et for brain size. And, while I have been seriously advocating about the the design of the universe... his observation about the gospels humbles me. He is so correct.