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Dumbest statement you've heard today
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 12, 2012 at 12:28 pm
I disagree a bit... it was 19 Muslims who did it with the promise of 72 virgins in Heaven, and if you remember there was a note found instructing them on how to kill the flight attendants Halal style.
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 12, 2012 at 7:53 pm (This post was last modified: January 12, 2012 at 7:55 pm by R-e-n-n-a-t.)
(January 12, 2012 at 10:25 am)Zen Badger Wrote:
(January 11, 2012 at 11:15 pm)R-e-n-n-a-t Wrote: I'm paraphrasing here, but when we were discussing the 9/11 suicide bombings...
religious person: "How did religion get into this?!"
me: stunned silence
me: "Because 9/11 was a religious attack?"
religious person: "It was!?"
me: more stunned silence

No it wasn't religious.
It was an attack on American imperialism. You will note that none of the targets were religious.
The government turned it into a religious war later.

I would argue that:
Yes, America initiated most of the war and turned it into a Christian war effort, but the attack never would have happened if it had not been for religion. Several statements were made by the organization that spawned the suicidal idiots that America didn't fit with Islam.
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 12, 2012 at 8:05 pm
I think it would be reasonable to say that it was motivated by both religion and politics.
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 12, 2012 at 8:26 pm
(January 12, 2012 at 8:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I think it would be reasonable to say that it was motivated by both religion and politics.

Yes.
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 12, 2012 at 10:33 pm (This post was last modified: January 12, 2012 at 10:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Allah hu akbar. It was an act of terrorism carried out by religious extremists being strung along like puppets in service of their masters..who have a political agenda(and likely couldn't care less about Allah or Islam)...par for the course.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 13, 2012 at 12:19 am
Quote:No it wasn't religious.
It was an attack on American imperialism. You will note that none of the targets were religious.


Yes and no. I'm fairly confident it was religious for the dumb fucks who hijacked the planes.


However, terrorism ALWAYS has a political agenda, as do ALL wars.
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 13, 2012 at 5:36 am
Egor, Egor, Egor, Egor, Egor, Egor, Egor, Egor, Egor, Egor, Egor, EGOR!

Quote:Faith is Greater than Reason

Because faith uses rationality as its stepping stone and then goes further through the use of will, it is obviously a greater use of human mental capabilities. And couldn't it be said that the use of will is more godlike than the use of rationality? Thus if there is a God, it may well be the case that we grow closer to Him via the use of faith.
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 13, 2012 at 7:17 am
On topic (Dumbest statement heard today)
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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 13, 2012 at 8:15 am
Being told on another forum by a christian that jesus wasn't jewish.

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RE: Dumbest statement you've heard today
January 13, 2012 at 1:09 pm
Of course he wasn't Jewish. His last name was Christ, not Christowitz!
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