RE: Ask A Historian
September 14, 2015 at 8:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2015 at 8:01 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.
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I very much enjoyed Toland's The Rising Sun, as well as Infamy which, while I did not agree with his conclusion about foreknowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor, shocked me into how much about the leadup to Pearl Harbor I did not know, where the Brits, Dutch, and Americans did practically everything in their power to get Japan to hit us somewhere as a way to incentivize the isolationist American people to enter WW2. The more likely explanation, to me, has always been racism: we didn't think the Japanese were intelligent enough to hit us as hard and as thoroughly as they did, and as a result made a lot of stupid errors that compounded the damage. I also wanted to read his book about Hitler, but unfortunately it was in high demand among the Nazi sympathizers that are rampant in the Missouri prison system, and I never got a chance to pick it up.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
