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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
and they are all doing it in the name of their particular made up deity
perhaps if we could teach them there are no gods instead of bombing them they all might evolve quicker
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This has absolutely nothing to do with God - no matter who or what you perceive him to be. This is exclusively about
evil men.
From the dawn of mankind, humans have killed and maimed each other. It is in man to do so
instinctively. Man is the
only beast on Earth who slaughters for fun and sport, and derives pleasure from barbaric cruelty.
Nothing changes with - so called -'evolution', only the manner of killing. Flint axes became wooden clubs, became swords, became guns, became nuclear warheads.
We all have good and evil within us and a quality called 'free will', and the majority of Christians or Muslims or Jews would not willingly commit the barbaric atrocities which these evil fundamentalist terrorists so readily delight in perpetrating under the pretence of a 'Holy War. Whilst these bastards are waging their phoney war in the name of Allah, hundreds of thousands of ordinary, civilised Muslims are knelt in mosques all over the world praying for an end to the atrocities.
It was much the same with the vast majority of ordinary Roman Catholics during the decades of atrocities and cowardly indiscriminate bombings committed by the IRA - supposedly - in the name of God.
God has nothing to do with it, and it is not a Holy War. It is a war waged by purely evil madmen who instinctively have the urge to murder, and the desire to inflict pain and suffering. These are monsters who have been provided an excuse by the West which they believe justifies their 'war' and vindicates their acts of abhorrent inhumanity to fellow man.
Evil men gravitate to other evil men and to evil causes. Do not blame God. It is man - the human beast - not God.
The billions in God's 'armies' are harmless, decent, civilised human beings who can be found knelt worshipping in Churches, Chapels, Mosques and Synagogues, not killing, maiming and beheading innocent people.
When this thin veneer of 'civilisation' has eroded, or when man is beyond the the fragile framework of laws which confine him, the majority of us remain 'human'. There are things we still would not do, even were there no longer any laws to prevent us doing them.
Yet, there
are men who have done the most inhuman and bestial of acts to other humans just because they
could; The ordinary Roman soldier in Judea, once 'ordinary' German men who became Nazis, once 'ordinary' Romanians who served under Ceausescu, the list is endless, and these men seized their opportunity to do what they did, because they were intrinsically and instinctively
evil. Despite Lord Acton's adage that “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely etc", a man has to
be evil to commit the acts of evil we are addressing here.
Like the secret paedophiles who secure employment in childrens' homes, or the lesbians who become officers in womens' prisons, evil men huddle under the banner which will best afford them the opportunity to satisfy their bestial desires.
They do not need 'educating that their is no God'. This war is not about God, and what is more; they do not believe in God - if they did, then no amount of 'conditioning' could turn them into the depraved hate-filled butchers they are.
Further; what is your view on the thousands of senseless wars which were
not fought in 'God's name'?
And it is not just in wars where the 'evil that men do' is occurring with sickening regularity.
Imagine you are looking through a special 35mm film camera; you start 'Medium Close' in one of those little boxes we call houses; watch as the drunken husband drags his screaming wife around by her hair, punches her in the head, kicks her in the stomach. 'Cut' to that little bungalow - there in the bedroom, where that 'burglar' is beating the 85 year old retired midwife black and blue having already robbed her of the few possessions which she had. This beating is just for fun - a kind of perk of the job, 'Pull Back' to the street outside a Nightclub; there; where the two yobs are kicking the 17 year old students head in. 'Cut' to that dark alleyway as the two hooded thugs are beating the innocent 58 year old Church organist to death with baseball bats. Get the idea? All evil, senseless and sickening, and not one of God's banners in sight.
I am neither deluded, brain-washed nor crazy, but I
believe in God. I believe in God because of something which I experienced - something which changed me and my life. Despite my 'epiphany', I do not, however, believe in the Church. The Church - like Government and Local Government, the Judiciary, and every other institution in this world - is run by man. Man - with all his frailties and flaws, his corruption and prejudices, and hypocrisy.
I think that you mistake Man's doing for God's.
Incidentally, I believe that it takes a greater 'Leap of Faith'
not to believe in God than to believe in him.
