WTF? CNN poll, would you fight for your religion?

[Nimrod2005]

So far 36% say: Y-E-S! Yes yes yes!

http://www.cnn.com/

[aquart]

1. Which is why they shouldn't be asked to.

[Nimrod2005]

3. It is amazing to me, it is thousands so far, they are Americans?

Or do you think the so-called islamists terrorists are freeping the poll?

[aquart]

23. Well, it's not like they specifically defined the circumstances.

It's airy-fairy abstract, really. Easy to make brave bold statements that way.

[angrycarpenter]

2. not A surprise

most people would fight to protect anything they believe strongly about. At the other end of the spectrum are people who would fight to protect freedom.

[Nimrod2005]

4. I would fight for food, my personal freedom, and to protect my house

Never a God damn religion, NEVER! That would be the worst thing to fight for IMHO.

[angrycarpenter]

7. my point was

People will fight for the things they are obsessed with be it god or marxism or the right to vote or anything.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

9. Yes, those obsessed with the "right to vote".

Crazy zealots, those.

MKJ

[angrycarpenter]

17. some are

Have you never heard of someone for whom civil rights is an all-consuming passion. The ones who will actually go to the demonstration and be on the front lines and actually want to be arrested for the cause. I admire these people greatly because they fight and sometimes die for the right of people to practice their civil rights, A cause that is dear to us all. From A psychological point of view there is little difference between the zealot and the freedom fighter, both believe in their cause enough to protect it, with their lives if it comes to that.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

20. Oye.

Dancing on the head of a pin...

I give up. MKJ

[yellerpup]

5. I wouldn't fight for anyone's religion.

How many terrorists voted in this poll?

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Unlike Shrub's , mine prohibits it.

Christianity.

[Bill McBlueState]

15. 1500 years of history

1500 violent years of Western history belie your claim that Christianity prohibits religiously motivated violence.

[orpupilofnature57]

24. True ,but nothing in the new testament Advocates war for any reason..

thats why shrub summoned Fundies with Christ, but always uses the Old testament to justify his actions.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. My family fought for theirs.

We're linked to the old IRA, which I guess you can say fought for Catholicism over Protestantism.

Would I though? Well I guess if someone wanted to force me to believe in what they believed. But I think we all would.

[orpupilofnature57]

10. Thats a Political & Provincial Conflict more than Religious even though

the labels imply Church's

[Drunken Irishman]

12. True.

Which stems from religious conflict, but that wasn't the entire issue, however.

[youngdem]

11. About a third sounds right. Bushbot constituency.

[Progressive Friend]

18. Exactly, the Evangelical fundamentalists are the loud minority (not the "silent majority")

[ElizabethDC]

13. I'd fight for mine - if we were being actively persecuted

I mean, I'm not gonna go blow myself up or something, but if I had to fight for the right to practice my religion, I'd do it - as a matter of fact, it's one of the few things I'd fight for. But I'm not gonna go out on a crusade anytime soon, ya know?

[tularetom]

14. I'd fight for the right NOT to have a religion

Organized religion is not worth fightin for. If it went away completely that'd be good.

[Hersheygirl]

25. Now, that's something

I totally agree with. People having something to believe in is wonderful, but when they started organizing that faith into different groups, thats where it all went wrong. Each group thought they were right and the rest were wrong.

[NoFederales]

16. Leave it to CNN to keep poisoning the meme of religion in politics. nm

NoFederales

[OhioChick]

19. Wow.....

36% say yes. My religion is PEACEFUL.

[collegegirl211]

21. CNN=irrelevant

cnn sucks they have some weird and strange poll questions and people actually answer them.

[defendandprotect]

22. Democracy's highest privilege is freedom of thought, freedom of conscience --

without which there is no democracy.

Organized patriarchal religions stand for just the opposite --
most are dictaorships.

A belief system is the end, not the beginning, of all wisdom.

[rucky]

26. They're doing a 3-part series on "Holy Warriors"

Jews, Muslims & Christians


It sounds pretty edutaining to me.

[sarcasmo]

27. They are pimping God's Warriors week.

Typical infotainment.

[POAS]

28. Can't resist: Who would Jesus kill?