Clay Bennett for April 22, 2013

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’.

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.

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”.

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…

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

unfortunately in some countries radical Muslims are a majority [ ex Egypt , Libya]

If he’s a religious fundamentalist, then he’s probably a right-winger. That certainly wouldn’t mean he’d vote for a Republican, though, because he’d be rejected for not being of the correct religion.

Orthodox Catholic said, about 1 hour ago

“Your Muslim friends are obviously like many Catholics I have met — they are in name only.

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The Muslim religion was started on murder, promoted by murder, and has a “holy book” that promotes murder of all who do not convert to Islam.

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Non-violent Muslims are the same as pro-abortion Catholics"you mean, law abiding, tax paying, responsible and kind family oriented human beings? I’ll agree to that.

Orthodox Catholic said, about 3 hours ago

@mickey1339

“You are totally uninformed. The Crusades were begun after DECADES of Muslims killing innocent Christians in the Holy Land. The last straw was when a caravan of some 8,000 pilgrims to the Holy Land was attacked and most of them killed by Muslims. The Church decided to come to the rescue of those brothers and sisters who were being butchered.

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Muslims, on the other hand, have a long and rich history of attacking others without provocation in order to advance their religion.

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The Inquisition was started for basically the same reason — Jews who lived in Spain were opening the doors of the towns at night and letting the Muslims in to slaughter the townspeople. These were Jews who were pretending to be Christian. The Inquisition was there to ferret them out and rid Spain of them.

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Facts. They are very useful when you are trying to make a point, but they can also make someone like you look silly when you don’t use them."right, the inquisition was the jews fault for “pretending” to be Christians. and why pray tell were they “pretending”?. it is you, OC, that are hopelessly misinformed.

“Atheism=belief in absence of evidence also.”Do you actually read what you post?

“Bennett has been in the LEAD in trashing the Church for the actions of a few priests (about 4% of all clergy ordained).”Let’s see…there are about 400,000 Catholic priests. 4% of that is SIXTEEN THOUSAND. That’s an acceptable number to you, is it? Especially since the church’s main response has been to shuffle them around and cover up their “actions”? (I see you decided to use the word “actions” instead of “molestations”…sounds better, doesn’t it?)

“Please state the evidence supporting atheism.”Seriously? You want me to type all that in here? Look, if you’re really interested, you have many, many web pages easily available to you. Here’s how to find them: https://www.google.com/search?q=evidence+for+atheism

Seriously? You want me to type all that in here? Look, if you’re really interested, you have many, many web pages easily available to you. Here’s an example: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/You also need to learn about The God of the Gaps; that is, just because something hasn’t been discovered yet is not proof that your particular god exists: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps

“But when you have scientific proof that is undeniable, with no gaps, get back to me.”

When you have any evidence that evolution is driven by anything other than natural forces, get back to me.

You are arguing “the God of the Gaps.” If points A, E, I, M, Q, U, and Y all line up pointing to Z, you say “There are too many gaps. You’ve shown nothing.” Then when C, G, G, K, O, S, and W are found you say " “There are still too many gaps. You’ve shown nothing.” If we have A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Z, you say "What about the gap between A and B? “What about the gap between B and C? Those can only be filled by God.”

“They were pretending to be Christians to stay in Spain:”If every Christian who has been called “not really a Christian” by another Christian were to vanish, there would be no Christians left.

“I’m just stating that atheists can’t undeniably make the case that all life on this planet evolved from primordial goo.”Still the best choice, even if only by Ockham’s Razor. Adding “God did it” just unnecessarily complicates things.

“Atheism is no different.”Except for the fact that atheism isn’t a religion, unless you’re one of those people who think baldness is a hair color, or good health is a disease. Remember, we’re all atheists…we all don’t believe in thousands of gods. I just believe in one less than a religious fundamentalist. Percentagewise, that’s nothing.

“Popularizers” of Science have the unenviable task of explaining processes that take billions of years or billionths of a second, distances as long as a million light years or as short as an angstrom, and masses greater than a thousand suns or smaller than a photon to a species which considers 100 years a “long time”, the blink of an eye to be synonymous with “instantaneous,” 100 miles to be “far away” and a hair’s-width to be as close as you can come, an elephant to be “huge” and an ant to be “tiny.” Not to mention our belief that 100 degrees F is “unbearably hot” and 0 degrees F is “unbearably cold.”

@OC,that’s the best you could come up with? revisionist history, a “new” look and basically, the “jews killed christ” argument.it must be very difficult for you to be holier than everyone else.what idiocy. might as well spout limbaugh and hannity as gospel.

“Baldness is a color, Flesh Tone is indeed a color..”Sigh. Baldness is not a HAIR color, Tigger. Please read more carefully.

“Prove your statement with valid proof of Intelligent Design”First you’re going to have to tell me which of my statements you’re talking about, Tigger. Next, given that “intelligent design” is nothing more than a re-branding of the Christian creation mythology, I’d have no idea how to come up with a “valid proof” of it. Third, I love how you you constantly demand other people back up what they say, but whenever the same is asked of you, you run away with your tail between your legs, like you did here: http://www.gocomics.com/patoliphant/2013/04/16/?view=full#comment-anchor

“I have not seen any Muslims coming forward to condemn the actions of their radical members.”I’ve seen more than one article of American Muslims (and American Chechens) doing just that in regards to the Boston bombers, Coraryan…including such statements from their family members.