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In the discussion thread: An utterly brilliant analysis on the side of a bus. [View all]

Thu May 10, 2012, 10:43 AM

lapislzi (4,908 posts)

36. Every religion has had violence linked to it. Every one.

There is not a religion in the world, in ancient times or modern, that has not been associated with some form of violence.

There is always going to be some nut, or group of nuts, who think they have to commit violence in the name of their sky wizard.

I am going to excuse Quakers. One of their own DID prosecute a war, but he did not start it, and he did not profess to prosecute it in the name of his deity.

...mutters...can't believe I'm letting Nixon off the hook...

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63 replies	Author	Time	Post
An utterly brilliant analysis on the side of a bus. [View all]	pepperbear	May 2012	OP
great pic...but where is the double deck part of the bus? nt	msongs	May 2012	#1
LOL I think I just saw the red part	pepperbear	May 2012	#2
That flew to the moon	malaise	May 2012	#3
fixed it.	pepperbear	May 2012	#4
HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!	WillyT	May 2012	#5
Great Dawkins quote, but I don't think it ever made it to the side of a bus.	Brickbat	May 2012	#6
The Bus Slogan Generator strikes again	struggle4progress	May 2012	#9
A bit too harsh and a bit too simplistic.	mucifer	May 2012	#7
Yup, too simplistic and harsh. Broadbrushing there indeed.	uppityperson	May 2012	#51
Nice... I'm guessing this is an RDF sign. /nt	jimlup	May 2012	#8
Correction. Some religions fly you into buildings.	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#10
Additionally, only some science flies you to the moon. nt	ZombieHorde	May 2012	#14
Sure, not on the scale of 9/11, but Northern Ireland bombing campaigns are no picnic either. nt	Selatius	May 2012	#20
The Irish troubles were no more about religion than the Falklands War was.	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#21
LOL! You're telling me that the animosity between Catholics and Protestants didn't exist?	backscatter712	May 2012	#25
I'm telling you that if the UK had been a Catholic country,	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#27
But would they have blown up Protestant area pubs without checking political allegiances first?	dmallind	May 2012	#29
Point goes to dmallind. Well played. (nt)	urgk	May 2012	#62
You're right.	lapislzi	May 2012	#26
Wow. So now the Oklahoma City Bombing was motivated by Christianity?	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#28
McVeigh self-identified as a right-winger	lapislzi	May 2012	#30
Always amusing in these threads when DUers feel the need to go back 700 years to the Crusades	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#33
What, it didn't happen?	lapislzi	May 2012	#35
Yes, I'd forgotten about the militant Buddhists.	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#37
Don't be facile.	lapislzi	May 2012	#39
That's a story about drug violence in Thailand.	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#41
Your point?	lapislzi	May 2012	#42
The link you posted was to a story about drug violence. Nothing to do with religion.	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#47
Yes, OK. I admit to errors of haste in my effort to prove a point.	lapislzi	May 2012	#50
I, myself, am sorry that anyone falls for the BS of religion. It's useless.	Dawgs	May 2012	#56
If Buddhists had large oil & mineral deposits under them.	raouldukelives	May 2012	#46
Fine	BillStein	May 2012	#43
It makes me laugh too.	urgk	May 2012	#57
Actually McVeigh claimed to be an atheist	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	May 2012	#45
McVeigh lived in a Christian Identity compound - Nicholls "wore out several bibles" in jail.	dmallind	May 2012	#31
Every religion has had violence linked to it. Every one.	lapislzi	May 2012	#36
Voltaire put it a bit more eloquently:	markbark	May 2012	#54
Yes. The militant Quakers are just biding their time.	Nye Bevan	May 2012	#59
That's a good one! And oh so true!	Auntie Bush	May 2012	#11
Paints with a wide brush. thats the problem.	demosincebirth	May 2012	#12
Science flies you over Hiroshima	Union Scribe	May 2012	#13
LOL!!! Excellent one, well said. +1,000,000!	Zalatix	May 2012	#17
which saved hundreds of thousands from a gruelling occupation/resistance.	dmallind	May 2012	#32
And put the world in danger of an extinction-level nuclear war.	Zalatix	May 2012	#34
Hardly. Science as a discipline did not make	hifiguy	May 2012	#48
Same could be said for flying to the moon. Science as a discipline didn't make the decision.	uppityperson	May 2012	#52
But science provides no motivation or reason to do so.	NYC Liberal	May 2012	#58
First, I should say that this is one of my alternate email sig files.	BobTheSubgenius	May 2012	#15
WOW!!!	calimary	May 2012	#16
Ummmmm.....	jberryhill	May 2012	#18
Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars.....	chknltl	May 2012	#19
So which religion led to the murders of tens of millions in China or the USSR?	Zalatix	May 2012	#22
I don't believe the poster suggested that all horrors are the result of religion....	Scuba	May 2012	#23
Mao's and Stalin's cults of personality.	backscatter712	May 2012	#24
When, in all of human history...	urgk	May 2012	#60
That is a quote from the physicist Victor J. Stenger.	hifiguy	May 2012	#38
Cute but science can fly you into buildings, too	treestar	May 2012	#40
Science provides no motivation to fly into a building.	hifiguy	May 2012	#44
Amen.	urgk	May 2012	#61
If, as Einstein said, nationalism is "the measles of mankind",....	lastlib	May 2012	#49
Rockets = Science. Commercial jets = Religion?	uppityperson	May 2012	#53
I guess GD doesn't have a SOP anymore.	Union Scribe	May 2012	#55
this belongs in the religious forum. locking.	seabeyond	May 2012	#63

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