Is there not something mighty peculiar at the beginning of this new column by William Saletan on Slate:
Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, and Jews,You’re living in the age of the Internet. Your religion will be mocked, and the mockery will find its way to you. Get over it.
Amy Alkon sure thinks so.











Ridiculous. The whole thing was a set up from the start. If it isn't one thing it's another with the religion of perpetual outrage. F all of them and their hateful moon god.
ace was having a go with Saletan a couple of days ago. Maybe Saletan's trying to get all his stupid out in one week.
The first comment on Alkon's post is hilarious.
Here’s a small fix:
Dear Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Progressive One-Worlders
You’re living in the age of the Internet. Your religion will be mocked, and the mockery will find its way to you. Get over it.
Dear dimwits if you believe the violence in the Middle East is related to an internet video you will be mocked.
Dear liberals everyone is mocking you now.
Any God who can not stand being questioned or ridiculed is not much of a God. A true God looks after man, he does not require man to protect him.
Yes. Even the onion has taken clearly NSFW shot at this ridiculous comment.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/
OK, Dude, or Chick...
Punctuation and capitalization!!!
I immediately ignore bad writing skills and discount the writer as ignorant, stupid, or otherwise.
Do I care if English is your 2nd language? NO! Learn to type correctly, and quit being lazy. You came over here, now learn the language!
Texas
OK is a plant.. a troll. The syntax and the effort to appear like someone who cannot write English is too consistent from thread to thread. Also they, he, she, it ? never makes common errors like mixing up then and than or where, wear and were. In addition there are too few spelling mistakes. No this is a crefully written plant. a fake. it is designed, like the threads from Quebecois NDP separatiste ( a moniker designed to rile up the audience) to change the subject and bring out the not so nice replies which will be used to discredit the discussion and the web site in general.
You have to ignore them.
Ok's spell checker must be lit up like a Christmas tree. OK is having me seriously consider becoming a racist.
"Ridiculous. The violence won't go away until the last Quran disappears from earth. The violence is built into in the religion."
Just like raping kids is built into Catholicism?
Look, don't get me wrong. All believe that all of you sky-ghost believing weirdos need a good kick in the pants, with Muslims right at the top of the list, but don't kid yourself. At different points in their history, all of the religions have been blood-thirsty cults. All of them.
ok is a spambot?
I think its code needs a tune- up.
I ♥ Loblaws.
ok its not corrupt government it is the Will of Allah. As a devout muslim you should know that.
BTW in Church this morning I saw an Iranian Canadian Christian hug a Christian Canadian police sergeant. Hugging is the kind of thing we Christians do in church. You should try it in your mosque sometime.
hmm, interesting, lets try a reply trigger
ok , blahh blah blah
Hey, I think I'm entitled to a few free riots and murders here, as I didn't do anything when some jerk put pictures of Jesus in urine.
The moral equivocation (of all religions) from the secular-left, underscores a laziness of thought.
First, as one who has rejected faith, being raised as a Christian in the West makes one an inheritor of Judeo-Christian civilization and thankfully after reformation. To see no distinction between that and the Seventh century unreformed by design is like wearing a conceptual condom over one's mind.
Second, a little research and conscientiousness will reveal that Islam is as much a political movement as religion. Separation of Church and State has no meaning in Islam. One cannot engage Islam in debate or discussion when deceit, brutal enforcement, and complete rejection to alternative concepts are in scripture all maintained by threats and actions of physical harm. Islam is an alternative (lack of) civilization at odds with the West, the East and everything in between.
The West should mock Islam incessantly until they realize that we won't be go into dhimmitude peacefully.
John - did actually read the books and study supporting ideologies that comprise both? And do you think atheism has a pure record of no attempted genocides?
The stupid is strong with this one.....
Let's mock Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot ... all atheists responsible for the bloodiest century in history.
Right, John?
Excellent analysis, John Chittick.
"a little research and conscientiousness will reveal that Islam is as much a political movement as religion"
Likewise a little research and conscientiousness reveals that atheistic secularism is a religion as much as a political movement.
Oh and a correction is in order: realize that we won't be go into dhimmitude AT ALL!!!!
John Chittick,
I am not going into dhimmitude at all... and "peacefully" really depends on them.
St. Michael stand with us.
Don't think the CIA and other spook agencies working for "da boss" don't know about this convenient habit of fanatic Islamist foamers rioting at the slightest provocation. Anyone and anything seems to whip them into a blood lusting frenzie with a little encouragement by western provacaters. It's a useful tool when presidential numbers are lagging or you need to blame something on a politial opponent or policy or the fascist oligarchy needs to keep the "war with terror" in high gear to justify dismantling the constitutional republic and constructing the socialist martial gulag state.
The foamy-mouthed Islamist "riots on demand" are indeed a useful tool of clandestine statecraft. Obama, Clinton and both Bushes had administrations which were masters of the disaster-reaction-solution dialectic to arrive at their desired policy direction. This recent arab spring backlash is going somewhere - lets watch closely, with a jaundiced eye, how the consensus media spin this for their whitehouse masters.
Joe
atheism is a BELIEF system, not a religion
us atheists question our beliefs, and that were idiot religious folk, like U fail mizzerably
As usual the secular atheists start throwing stones!!!
Name calling is not necessary nme666!!!
You have no morals or beliefs I do.
If you say you have morals tell me where you got them from ...cause sooner oral after down yours and everyone else's blood lines they all trace back to scripture!!
Second, a little research and conscientiousness will reveal that Islam is as much a political movement as religion.
This is true of all religions. All religious movements seek control over the state. Pope Innocent the III came very close to relegating kings to pure figurehead status. Further, the Reformation was NOT good it was the Enlightenment that was good.
If you say you have morals tell me where you got them from
Can't speak for others but I got them by THINKING not reading some weird old book. And those morals are rather good. There are far fewer Atheists in prison than Christians as a percent total of either. Atheism wins again.
Atheism is a religion just as surely as any other. It has its priesthood and its belief system all laid out. The only difference between atheism and the other belief systems is the other belief systems are honest enough to call themselves religions. Atheism isn't honest its just really good at denial.
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holy crap... are all the christians, hindus, and jews
starting to attack and murder diplomats too?
i guess i missed that.
obviously the first step is to shut down youtube.
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Atheism is a religion just as surely as any other.
Lies.
It has its priesthood and its belief system all laid out.
More lies.
Record time to run out of remotely honest arguments. Straight to the point or lack thereof.
"... it was the Enlightenment that was good."
Sure; after collecting all the useful stuff developed by the Reformation and it's follow-ons, the 'Enlightened ones' stripped out the God-bits, did some rephrasing, and voila: "Enlightenment"! Followed by a chorus of "Why Can't Them Be Smart Like Us". The major product of the Enlightenment, of course, was the French Revolution.
Cheers
What were the 'good bits' of the reformation? The anti-semitism of Martin Luther? Sectarian slaughter?
What was there to rephrase? Enlightenment thinking did steer away from God that's what made it enlightened.
LAS, that "weird, little book" is the basis of Western thought and law. At the very least, acknowledge that you would be living in a hut had it not been for the West and what made it great.
I heard North Korea is an atheist state. You can live there if you like.