These people scare me

Wow he crazy.

dood

The church my mom goes to teaches that Muslims are evil, and like the good sheep she is, she believes every word. These  preachers at these churches telling the loyal sheep that other religions are evil is what causes crap like 9-11. You get one nut-bag with a loyal following who shoves his or her perverted views of whatever religion they claim to follow onto the people that trust them, and it doesn't take much to make a otherwise normal person a fanatic. My mom is a nice person, but if her "preacher" keeps telling her how evil Islam is, and she keeps believing him, he could easily sell an idea like that to her. Hell, he could probly do it now.

On the other side of the coin, if people didn't follow religions, there would be some other way for crazy people to get a following. Religions also are capable of helping people through their lives with the belief that things will be better later, but the amount of times religion has been used as an excuse for things like 9-11, the crusades, and so on, has made me very un-trusting of religion. The concept of a higher power is fine with me, but religion seems like a total load of crap, if that makes any sense.

Edit: Actually, I think I'll re-phrase this a little. Religions are fine, religious extremists of any kind, following any religion, suck.


Edited by vash357 - 03 December 2006 at 5:30pm

choopie911 wrote: Gotta love those vague generalizations...yeah...all muslims are bad allright.... Just like how Oswald proved all americans are murderers.

Oh come on we all know Oswald had help I wonder if "racial profiling" would have stopped the attacks on 9/11? We will never know, but there han't been one since. So whatever we are doing it appears to be working.

I liked his tacticks for getting the responses that he did. People actually believed that he wanted to do that and they responded. I'm purturbed that people would actually side with him on that.

Now that I think about it, some people say/type things just to get attention. I believe the original author of this idea is doing that. As the old saying goes there's no such thing as bad publicity

i think that it's totally true.  Hell, when I see a person who looks middle eastern, sure I wonder to myself, "what would i do if something went down", but that doesn't stop me from treating them with the same respect that I do other people. If I'm kinda nervous around people I don't know, least of all muslims, I try not to show it.  But yeah, I wonder sometimes.

BARREL BREAK wrote: Better plan: Tattoo "Idiot" on my head as a warning to others.

Fixed.

Read the article.

someone on my dads side of the family came from lebanon.



its the small place right above isreal. i dont know much about it and thats the 1st time ive ever seen it on a map...

anyways i dont have any contact with that side of the family and the bloods been thined out enough that i dont have dark skin(but i can get one heck of a tan and dont burn) i have enough irish blood in me that i have a light brown hair and blue eyes but i just have alot of it. i was born into a catholic family but grew up christian.

if you meet me on a day i shave you wouldent even think twice about it. the only 2 things i have that tie me to that part of the world are my name and the amount of hair i have.

but anyways. i planned a trip to disney for christmass and my gf (100% blonde haird blue eyes irish) doesnt understand how i know ive already been "randomly" selected for extra serches and why i want to get to the airport early.

when i go through airport security i make sure i strip EVERYTHING off right down to my jeans and t shirt but still manage to set off the metal detector (even my boots go in the little tub)

needless to say when i get married il probly be the one changing my name

Edited by merc - 03 December 2006 at 7:15pm

Oh the damage that a man can do with words.