The Issue of Idolatry in Abrahamic Religions

[The Grand Nudger]

As a famous us politician once said, roughly, I guess that you just aren't as angry about it as those true believers are. As I consistently suggest, islamists aren't doing it wrong, you are, to your great credit - even if you're dealing with some latent cultural islamism in your own attempt to shove it's square peg down your round hole. You appear, from the outside, to be deluding yourself a great deal on this count. There was never a time that islam was anything else my dude. Atheism isn't the best option to this problem, it's not even an option, and never could be. Atheism has nothing to say on ethics, and yours is an ethical objection. The islamic golden age (and every golden age of every great nation as we tell it) is defined as it's military apex, peak conquest. That's what it meant to be "civilized" and that's what perpetually sends you down unproductive avenues. The best way to tell how civilized people were was how efficiently they slaughtered and exploited the savages. Undeniably proof, not simply in theory but in actual practice, we've long believed, of the superiority of our tribes, and our tribes gods. Frankly, it's only when we begin to fail to successfully shit on the other guy when we start to worry that our ideology is in decline or our patron gods have abandoned us.

That's a good quote, though, every war is a defeat. OTOH, I somehow doubt that praying about it will help, if it was going to, it already would have. If the king of the catholics wants to do something about it he has much better tools at his disposal than prayer...and he knows that, just as much as I do.

I'm right there with you in the cult of the peace plant, lol..but, buddy, you probably ought to be careful who you tell that too, especially in the company of believing abrahamists. They have never responded well to that, it's not something they one day started flipping out about. The faith has always felt a certain violent way..toward idolatry, and you're still close enough to that belief to come up with absurd explanations for it. Food for thought. I went out and performed some idolatry with a patch of berries today, and not a single jew was harmed.