holy[tm] shit

[sisyphusshrugged]

we just don't learn, do we.

An answer to the big 9/11 question "How can people justify laying their personal tragedies on the altars of other people's gods"

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[gentlyepigrams]

My husband was active in Blogcritics early on, but I never got into it. Now I'm glad, because every time I go over there, it seems like such a cesspit. If they just did reviews, I might be interested, but the politics and particularly the comments are a complete turn-off.

[shakes head sadly]

Yeah, I really wanted to avoid the topic

[temima.livejournal.com]

You know, it is possible to hold two seemingly contradictory thoughts in your head.

Like "9/11 was caused by batshit fundamentalists funded in part by American aid and Wahabi batshit beliefs."

Much hash has been made over Islamic fundamentalism, but not much about how Christian fundamentalists, either being foot soliders in politics or the Attorney General, are paying more attention to arresting porn directors and triming nasty, nasty Fourth Amendment rights than, uh, you know, not having this happen again.

It's not anything special or different in American Christianity that makes it less violent than Islam. It's stricter boundaries and different tools. I'm hopeful that sooner or later, there will be a Renaissance within Arab Muslim countries (it doesn't help that the country so vocal about rights and freedom is so damn hypocritical about it at times), but I am still worried about the Inquisition close to home.