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popeâs ambassador in Burundi, Carryed over from yesterday
Lu Baihu Ask me to elaborate:
#2 Wonder what the vactican is going to do about it?
Now we are hearing(rumors)threats directly aginst Vatican City itself is this justification for declareing a Holy War. Anybody remember the Mary Knoll Nuns,killed in Sth.America.
Posted by: raptor 2003-12-30 3:05:23 PM |
As most here at Rantburg already know the Islamist base this war on religious ideals. That makes this a religious war. It would seem to me that killing an Archbishop (remember this is a high member of the church hierarchy, not some lowly Preist or Nuns) plus direct threats to the Vatican would silence those that claim this is not a Holy War(even Pries. Bush says it is not a religious war). The question is what is the Catholic Church going to do about it? The Pope is too sick and feeble to do much, that leaves it up to the Councel of Cardinals. After the Maryknoll Nuns were raped, murdered, and the bodies desecrated and burned in El Salvadore, The Vaticanâs respose amounted to "Shame on you".
I agree with the President â and the Pope, not that I pay much attention to him most of the time â that for us to play the holy war game descends to their level. As people living in the 21st century, we've put such stupidity in our past. They haven't.
Additionally, casting it in crusade-jihad terms is a propaganda move on their part, designed to suck the rubes into flocking to the Banner of Islam⢠to defend the faith. We don't have to do that.
Those who want to can defend their faith, but I'm a lot more worried about our children and our culture. I don't want to see my grandchildren in turbans and burkas. I want to read Mark Twain and O. Henry and Henry Fielding and Burke and Hemingway and hundreds of other authors Islamists wouldn't approve of. I read the Koran once, when I was 19 or 20, and I've never looked at it since; I don't want to be required to read it over and over, nor do I want my children to be required to do so. I like drinking an occasional whisky, a cold beer, or a bottle of underpriced champagne. I like looking at pretty girls, the more comely and scantily clad the better. I enjoy my pipe. I like to tell jokes, often strangely colored. I enjoy the liberty to do all those things I like, and I would die â quickly â living in a society that banned them and replaced them with the requirement to bow down toward Mecca five times a day. Ptui!
We don't have to put things in holy war terms. We have enough to defend and cherish without adding in religion. Freedom of religion is one of the things we're defending, but only one. |
Posted by: raptor 2003-12-31 |
