What the Middle East needs...
Everyone from the snooty college professor to the blue-collar big mouth is an expert these days on the Middle East. The chickenhawk who runs this oil coveting operation has no real ideas, and he "won't be rushed" into a solution, so an "Iraq study group" is hired to offer more bad ideas. Send more troops, bring them home, send that last surge... or maybe we can negotiate a deal with the puppet government we've attempted to instill in Iraq.
I have the solution.
Send Atheistic and Secular missionaries over there to spread the good word. Let those guys know that they don't have to kill or die in the name of some being they've never seen. Tell the brethren that life was made to live, not to waste bowing down, chanting and reading some dusty old book. Let them know it's OK to admit that nobody knows Ultimate Truth for sure. Encourage them to embrace the mystery, not jihad, not Allah. Dying in the name of religion is for chumps!
Spread reason, not religious bigotry. Introduce Secularism as the national religion, or better yet, take religion out of the public square once and for all. It's created strife and negativity for millenia, and gives the people false hope. Isn't it time that Sunnis and Shiites admit the truth? There is no way to prove any religion or specific method as the ultimate authority. The theories always turn out questionable at best, and look how many have died... all for some pie in the sky idea that no living person can prove. I mean, do the suicide bombers at least get a chance to beat off once they find out there's no minion of virgins awaiting them? Jokes like this can be introduced in the cirriculum.
Praise be to _______! All hail Reason! They don't have to needlessly die anymore! Give the Middle East Secularism! Only then will there be peace in the Middle East.
posted by crallspace @ 12/20/2006 09:23:00 AM
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15 Comments:
You mean un-do the brainwashing and replace it with better brainwashing?
If you want to see a rather sick response to the problem check out this one:
Dead Muslim Babies For Dinner
I think that we might have a chance of re-educating the children.
I like to consider myself open minded and tolerant of all belief systems. However, It is difficult for me to have tolerance for a belief system which wants to kill me.
merry christmas
another pleasant thought.
listen to Pachelbel's Canon in D; it is very calming and actually beautiful.
Merry Christmas, anonymous. I will look at the library for the piece you mentioned... maybe.
Good post. You're going to Hell, you know. ;-)
Regarding the "human condition"...Superstitious belief systems seem to prevail, and the persons who impose themselves as leaders of those belief systems tend to be as corrupt and irrational as your average politician.
Religious leaders (and most politicians) always try to keep rational thought as far away from their contituencies as possible. Secular education is the enemy of these folks. And I think the world is getting worse on this point. Even the U.S. has been veering away from decent, rational education for the last 10 or 12 years. A country like China (that values a good secular education) will probably become the new world power, because of this very point. I figure we have about 15 years to learn Mandarin.
Zai jian,
Bad Ben
"Spread reason, not religious bigotry."
Unfortunately secular humanists, especially the evangelical ones full of missionary zeal like Richard Dawkins and my old pal Rev. Ray Drennan, have a bad habit of spreading less than reasonable anti-religious bigotry. Spreading secularism is not the answer as evidenced by the Stalinist Soviet Union and other atheist Utopias.
It looks like the site of the article I pointed to in my earlier response to this, has now quoted Dan in his most recent post.
Feverish Retard Solves Peace in the Middle East
Gotta admit that, as ghoulish as that blog post is, it is pretty funny. . . I'm still trying to suppress my guilty laughter.
avenger,
Do you mean the one about Muslim Babies for Dinner, or the one where he quotes Dan (and I think he was being sarcastic and actually calling Dan's idea stupid).
Start yourself a church, Dan. I think I"m going to. The tax breaks are great and you can get yourself faith based funds. Yup. It's the wave of the future. I'm still planning out my pomp and circumstance style of service, which I hope change each week, to keep things interesting. Like what color of robes should I wear for the preaching part and I do want to swing some incense, to get things going for each service, maybe even bang some big drums. I thought I'd start off each service with canon fire, but where to get a canon. And cheap, too.
Then I will begin "the crusades" The crusades my members must engage in will be bloody, let me tell you. Every young member will have to go on a one year mission. In that mission, they will have to scrounge the funds to fix 1000 stray cats. If their mission is not accomplished in one year, there will be a ceremonious disgraceful purging of them from my church as "unworthy". Yup, excommunicated for failure to fix strays. It's ungodlike behavior anyhow, to not fix strays. I will declare such an act, the act of not fixing one's cat, a deadly sin. Yeah I like that. Well, I'm just throwing around ideas now, nothing's for sure yet. I get revelations, not from magic glasses I wear, not from parting of waters, but from intensity variations of purr level, with a cat on my face and thoughts in my head. An increase in purr intensity during a thought, means its divine. That's right, might sound bogus to some, but not to the chosen. I'm writing up my doctrine, too.
I think that you should include reincarnation in your doctrine.
If people believed they could be reincarnated as any species, than they would have the incentive to make the world a better place for all species.
I don't believe in making up religion and convincing people it is the truth. But as long as you do, maybe you can put this idea in to your religion.
chosen? ok. not the first time the world has had to try to find a way to stomach the so called doctrines of people who spew words but rationalize within themselves *love thy neighbor as thyself* very evident to those who wish to see or hear it
coboble said... avenger, Do you mean the one about Muslim Babies for Dinner, or the one where he quotes Dan (and I think he was being sarcastic and actually calling Dan's idea stupid).
No kidding. . . ;-)
Yes. I meant his ultra-sarcastic respose to Dan's Middle East peace proposal. I waggishly suggested that evangelical fundamentalist atheits Richard Dawkins might want to offer his services. ;-)
Anonymous might be interested in knowing that the first celebration of Creation Day began with a 'Big Bang' provided by Taiko drummers.
Coboble's reincarnation idea is a pretty good one but it won't keep me from swatting mosquito's that land on me. . .
if misquitos land on you it means you are eating too many bananas
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