, post: 8586131, member: 1026804"]I own no submarines. You're turning into RHC... auto correct changes everything I type into American spellings. I go back and recorrect most of the instances but big whoop if I miss one here and there it's not the end of the world.[/QUOTE] On the contrary. I'd prefer Corbyn's indecisive, flip-flopping fingers on the button and causing (or letting) a nuclear holocaust occur in which we're all incinerated in a thermo-nuclear Armageddon than permit the use of Americanisms on this board, I'll have you know. #slighthyperbole
Exactly! ATM its like two kids at school where one had been taught to fight and the other as been taught to talk their way out of trouble. Only ever one winner in that situation!
The reports from Paris are very upsetting, I feel so sad this morning. It doesn't directly invade my bubble but there's something about this attack so close to our shores that gets to me. I'm still not pushing the button.
Have a lot of mixed emotions right now, first a foremost thinking of the poor people who lost their lives and their families. So ****ing angry to
Radical twats took what was said in the bible and thought it was okay to inslave millions of Africans.
Yes I know that. It didn't stop people taking what was said in the bible and think it was there god given right to enslave people. The point I'm making is that over the course of history people have taken what was said in there holy books out of context how a small minority of Muslims are doing today has been done by most if not all religions over time. So it's unfair to blame Islam as a religion for Isis and Co
By the logic your using Christianity was a factor in the slave trade from Africa to Europe and America
They used it to justify in their own minds what was already going on yes, but it would of happened without the bible.
I think it's more layered than that. The thought process is that arabs feel persecuted or sense of injustice. They turn to what they know, Islam, for the answer. It's politics that drives them, islam becomes the misdirected tool.
Slavery in various forms has existed since time immemorial- long before anyone had the literacy to write holy books. Those books have to be seen in the context of the social ethos that prevailed when they were written- to take them as the timeless, literal word of God is a mistake, because our social and moral standards change over time. That doesn't mean religion is to blame. If there was no religion, would we have world peace? Of course not. We have a long way to go to solve the injustices that create resentment and give cause for hatred throughout the world on many different levels. Religion is a flag of convenience for those with grievances who want to ascribe some higher authority for actions that they know are otherwise indefensible. If there was no religion, they would simply find another excuse. Good people do good things in the name of religion- bad people do bad things.
The situation is certainly complex, the situation people are in is the main driver for people directly involved eg those on the receiving end in the middle east, but why then do others from settled situations in western countries become radialised if not for their religious "brothers"?
Yep this is also true. Kinship of some sorts I can only imagine. Ignorance as well. I do think that, coupled with an emotional instability as a trait amongst some muslims I've met, seems to drive this sort of radicalisation?
They'd have a different excuse if it wernt Islam. "You're oppressing my people" "Your culture is indecent" "You eat too much cheese"
