[Tfug] religious nutcakes

[Ronald Sutherland]

K
I've been drinking some wine...

I find that GUN and Open Source is every bit a religion except, there
is a large number of resent converts, and resent converts are the most
dangerous, although I'm not sure why. It could be that they know so
little of all the edge cases that complicate the religion. This
suggests to me that Iraq is going to be a huge problem on so many
levels.

Most people assume that man is in the image of god, but how do we know
that is true. It places restrictions on the very nature and boundaries
of god. It may even break one of the commandments, as in praying
though an image or idol of god that is possibly false. I do not
presume to know god well enough to place myself in god's image.
Atheist take the easy way out and nuke the possibility of god's
existence, so they don't have to deal with the rather complex
possibility that god exist but is far more than their pathetic monkey
brain can deal with.

Anyway, keep up the good work tfug, I enjoy the BS when I have a
chance to read it.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> You will find in this world that less than 1% of Muslims are
> "nutcakes".  Just like any mainstream religion, there will always be
> small ultraconservative groups within it that give every other
> follower a bad name.  Should I think that all Christians are nutcakes
> because a few of them kill homosexuals and abortion doctors, or wear
> white robes and set crosses on fire?  Should I think that all Jews are
> nutcakes because a few of them want to ethnically cleanse Palestine?
> Should I think that all Hindus are nutcakes because a few of them try
> to occasionally burn down Christian churches?  Of course not--it's
> false induction.  Likewise, not all Muslims are "nutcakes" just
> because a few of them happen to be terrorists.
>
> Regards,
> Jude
>
> On 7/11/08, eric christian <ericdanc at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:53:14 -0700
>>> From: Michael Omar Gatto <gatto_omar at hotmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] religious nutcakes
>>> To: <tfug at tfug.org>
>>> Message-ID: <BLU103-W3E01B52A2F0EF167AF4F9E8900 at phx.gbl>
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>>>
>>> Meh, I served in Afghanistan as a Marine. I'd hate to nuke it since there
>>> were alot of fine people there and the food is damn good, too. I don't
>>> like my curries radioactive, mind you...
>>>
>> I said the tribal areas, didn't I? thats where the Taliban are attacking
>> us from. Its like the SS went to Liechtenstein 1945 and attacked German
>> cities in the 1950s.
>>>
>>> Oh, and as a Persian linguist I don't consider most Muslims as nutcakes
>>> and although I personally find some Egyptians rather annoying sometimes
>>> (used to be married to one) it doesn't automatically make them assholes or
>>> terrorists, me thinks. Rumor has it that UA holds academic conferences and
>>> people, apparently (gasp!) sometimes fly in just for a day to score
>>> brownie points by saying they attended...
>>>
>>> - Mike Gatto
>>>
>> Well, that's just fine. Then you can explain to us the persian concept
>> of "ketman" (arabian "taqiya"). I do consider moslems  as nutcakes
>> because of their concept of "tauchid" (please excuse the German
>> spelling, i know that its spelled otherwise in English "wahid",
>> whatever, but i forget). Tauchid is the essence of islam. Tauchid is the
>> reason why musselmen hate the west (us). In the West we have this
>> plurality,  social life here, private life there, religion here,
>> government there and so forth. Not so for the musselman, there is only
>> one thing, islam (tauchid). Europe had this tauchid brain damage in the
>> Dark Ages, it was called
>>
>>                               "Consensus fidelium"
>>
>> See, goddamit. I don't care about religion or tauchid or moslems and all
>> this bullshit. But they keep attacking us. This is just a waste of time.
>> lets go back to linux, damit.
>> Eric
>>
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