__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
__________________ Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day as a reckoner against you. I need no witnesses. You do not listen to your soul, but listen instead to your anger and your rage.
The Taliban is bad, but so are Evangelicals, the American version of the Taliban.
It's important to recognize degrees, though. The American Taliban is not nearly as bad as the Taliban, but they are bad and they are constantly defying the law of the land in pushing for more and more religion-based law and privilege. But at least they aren't actively trying to execute homosexuals and apostates, etc. That's very bad, and I think most people would have to admit that that is worse.
Define these "Christian fundamentalist", and what makes them so bad.
Not accepting homosexuality is hardly comparable to the beheadings in orthodox Islam.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Didn't I just specifically explain that I didn't think it's nearly as bad? **scratches head**
Fortunately we have what is supposed to be a secular document as the law of the land. That goes a very long ways to protect us from dangerous Theocracy...
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Those capital riots were totally not carried out by an unarmed crowd who murdered no one and the only fatality was one of their own.
What a bunch of war mongers!
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Islam teaches to kill those who won't convert. Any "peaceful" muslim who says otherwise is either lying or hasn't read their own holy book-- the Koran (or Quran, or however it's spelled). Or maybe they have read it but think Islam has "reformed" and no longer teaches that.
Otoh, the most a Christisn will do is warn you that you will go to Hell if you don't accept Christ or they might try to convince you in order to save you.
Under Sharia law, it's either convert or be beheaded. There is no comparison.
Islam is no religion of Peace. Perhaps many of today's muslims really do believe that and perhaps Islam truly has been reformed from what it once was but obviously the radicals still follow strict adherence to Sharia Law.
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
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__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
See the Pakistani "moderate" who toured the west as an example of tolerance, and murdered his own family for being caught with other men.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.