Comment Re:I've never understood this... (Score 1) 981
Religion, Ideology... a rose by a different name...
Religion, Ideology... a rose by a different name...
Reading Genesis (the book, not the band) alone is sufficient proof thereof.
Elon Musk. The guy who also created PayPal, arguably still one of the biggest, most successful companies on the internet.
There ya go, FTFY.
Not that he may have had much to do with that these days, but just stating the obvious. Business is business.
Was it the beta or the broken moderation system that drove him away?
As I glance up at my "nobeta" URL on the only internet site proudly owning the meme Fuck Beta, you're really asking this question?
Hm. The covenant of Noah is about two paragraphs before this part (King James Version) which is used for various justifications of slavery and discrimination against all sorts of people because they are said to bear the Curse of Ham. If folks wanted to use the Bible to justify anything ISIS says is justified by God's words in the Koran, they could easily do so.
18 And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
19 These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
For me, it's crappy because the autocorrect commonly changes what I intend into something that I don't intend. After several years, I gave up and turned off autocorrect, which is a partial solution- but the keyboard was really built with autocorrect in mind...
Perhaps you have extra-large thumbs, but how exactly is a keyboard "built" with the assumption that someone will be misspelling a word on a device that supports dozens of languages?
Oddly enough, I can't seem to find a definition for "QWERTY" that doesn't pertain the the very keyboard layout that birthed it's name in any dictionary...
No. The Sobieski room in the Vatican Museum is the real fuel that drives interventions. There is a long history here that people are ignorant of or refuse to acknowledge.
No. It's the liberal bleeding hearts that really trivialize the non-white races. They frame them as nothing but passive victims because that's what liberals do. They defame all manner of foreign nations and cultures.
I suspect the leadership of ISIS ironically enough understands the relevant history here better than you do.
Because ISIS doesn't give half a shit more about the Koran than the average politician over here does about the Bible. It's a tool to keep them in power and keep the sheep following them.
Why do you think people in the Middle East would be different from people in other parts of the world?
Isis is violating a fair lot of Islam rules. Not just now.
Just like so many radical groups they use religion as a tool to justify their actions. It's hardly a new idea.
Because when people learn critical thinking skills, they automatically dismiss ignorant hate-centered dogmas.
Any religion is afraid of science.
Religion is about faith.
Science is about doubt.
It's fairly easy to see why one is anathema of the other.
I can well see Muhammad and Jesus looking down on the whole mess and going "Dude, if I had known what they turn it into..." "Yeah, yeah, me neither".
About 3000/1000.
And some shrapnel.
Oh I'm fairly sure, if they thought they'd get away with it they'd cram the crap down your throat with fire and brimstone. It's not like the history of religion has been too peaceful.
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