| | Andre,
I think that you have a very valid point. Faith and reason are opposites. The moment that you declare that you will blindly follow and enforce some set of dictates, you simultaneously abdicate your logical mind.
I will go one further than you, too, and say that the embracement of religious fervor is about a sadistic addiction. People who engage in this, know that they are embracing the ways of cruelty, of inflicting a painful cognitive disconnect on those around them... and they love how the possession of that power flatters them.
Very often, these sorts of people already hunger for something that will bolster and cultivate their precious need for irresponsibly and precariously inflated high self-esteem. They choose the quick, dirty, cheap, and lazy way of feeling like a million bucks, rather than rolling up their sleeves and actually working for the real deal, through rational, balanced achievement and living.
Your name suggests to me that you might be Russian. Am I right? If so, you have my deepest sympathies regarding those Chechnyan Muslim fundamentalist monsters. I think that the Bush administration should lead a movement to allow Putin to do whatever he has to do, to neutralize their menace.
I also believe that we should absolve Slobodan Milosevic of the "war crimes" rulings that have been made against him. What was he doing? Well, our lovely world media neglected to mention to us -- or perhaps prior to 9-11 we had no appreciation for the fact -- that he was fighting a Muslim fundamentalist murder-movement in Bosnia. The Croats, who are Muslim, were pushing the same terror and butchery campaign there, as they do everywhere, and he did what he had to do to stop the tide.
The only problem is that by then, the Muslim terrorist nation of Syria had weaseled its way into a high seat on the U.N. Security Council, and was able to withhold crucial information about the "atrocities" and brainwash the rest of the U.N. into demonizing Milosevic.
In fact, the same thing is happening all over the world. If you look at every instance of ongoing warfare (such as in the African nation of Sudan), and investigate further, you will find that what our lovely world media is not telling us, is that it's really about some Muslim group bullying and butchering some other group, that is fighting heroically for its life.
And you have to realize that our world media has been deeply and pervasively infiltrated by Muslim fundamentalists and their sympathizers, and that is why we're not being told the whole truth.
Interestingly, the only newspapers which have been telling the whole truth all along, are papers such as The Christian Science Monitor. I acknowledge this and tip my hat to them, despite the fact that I am not particularly a Christian.
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