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Nye Bevan

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41. That's a story about drug violence in Thailand.

Thu May 10, 2012, 11:08 AM

May 2012

Nothing to do with religious violence.

I guess you found this story by Googling "Buddhist violence" because it mentions a Buddhist leader who speaks out *against* the drug violence that is the subject of the story.

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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