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   dtroutma said, 8 months ago

   There are indeed nuts in all the “majors” around the world,and a little comparison of “orthodox and Hasidic”, as well as “evangelical” and “Shia vs Sunni” doesn’t eliminate any of them from the “crazies pool”.

   
   A recent article on “forced/arranged” marriage is jus another also explores the brutality and insanity of these “cultures” , oddly enough dominated by men who claim “God is on our side”, just like "Gott mit Uns’.
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   curtisls87 said, 8 months ago

   My Muslim friends are aghast and appalled by the violence perpetrated by these individuals.
   While I abhor the Westboro group’s behavior, and I agree with the concept that every religion has its lunatic fringe, this analogy fails. Hhile the Westboro group does reprehensible things like picketing funerals, they have not, to date, engaged in physical violence.
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   2011worldchamps said, 8 months ago

   All three religions from the middleast are inherently violent, simply because at their core they all say, only their relgion is the correct one and everyone else is evil.

   Its just that the Jews and the Christians don’t usually commit “terrorism” because they have become powerful enough to kill people “legally”.
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   mikefive said, 8 months ago

   The Westboro Baptist Church is a minor blemish on the face of Christianity. Radical Islamic bombers are a major boil on the face of Islam. I’m not quite sure how the bigotry and demonstrations of forty or fifty people equates with the mass murders that have been committed by thousands..
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   mickey1339 said, 8 months ago

   @2011worldchamps

   “Its just that the Jews and the Christians don’t usually commit “terrorism””
   

   
   Read up on the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.
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   ahab said, 8 months ago

   @mikefive

   Mikefive,speaking of a blemish. Gun deaths in the U.S. annually are higher than all the terrorist victims killed worldwide annually. 4 X higher, and that was ignored recently by the Senate vote, and Americans seem to shrug and say, what the hell I want my gun, I don’t care! One nation under god, my foot! Gun worship allows the equivalent of a Viet Nam’s worth of casualties in the Christian U.S., that’s a sin!
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   mickey1339 said, 8 months ago

   @mikefive

   Mike, I think history bears out a couple of facts. Most countries fight wars and proclaim they are right and God’s on their side (whoever your God happens to be). It’s man’s rationalization for barbaric actions, often contrary to the actual teachings of the religion. Do we follow these commands as we kill thousands in the middle east?:
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   The Beatitudes
   

   
   3.Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4.Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5.Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6.Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7.Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8.Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 9.Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10.Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11.Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12.Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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   SkepticCal said, 8 months ago

   With your kind permission, I shall continue to blame the few.
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   STLDan said, 8 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   Funny that you lump all liberals together in a comment on this paticular comic. Try reading it again and use your brain. I’m a liberal and I didnt point at anyone. Go look up the word ironic while you’re at it..geez…
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    STLDan said, 8 months ago

    @mikefive

    You need a little history lessons on the exploits of christianity
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    Tigger said, 8 months ago

    Yet this is what Bennett does time and time again.
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    ARodney said, 8 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    If you don’t think radical Islamsist are “right wingers,” then you should study recent history.
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    lifebyc said, 8 months ago

    Perhaps the problem isn’t which religion, but RELIGION. Faith=belief in the absence of evidence.
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    wbr said, 8 months ago

    unfortunately in some countries radical Muslims are a majority [ ex Egypt , Libya]
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    ahab said, 8 months ago

    Funny, wbr seems have overlooked the carnage of WW! and WW2, as well as the carnage in the American Civil War, fought on America soil, on the graves of hundreds of thousands of American indians, the rest displaced from their lands. America’s economy dependent on the slave labor of Africans, Chinese coolies, and Irish poor.
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