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Burning people to death. Didn't Christians do that a few years back? [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2015
OP
Yes because of course, Soviet occupation of Afghanistan was welcomed by the people there and
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#54
There is an interesting quotation from the Quran that says something on the lines of
MADem
Feb 2015
#90
Which is why the terrorists of 9/11 shouldn't be considered Muslim as they did both...
cascadiance
Feb 2015
#102
They aren't. People forget the enormous outpouring of sympathy and goodwill from the Muslim world
MADem
Feb 2015
#168
He does not speak for Protestants nor for the millions of members of Orthodox Churches which
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#81
Anglicans come under the rubric of "Protestants," and I figured by mentioning the Eastern Chruch I'd
WinkyDink
Feb 2015
#205
Al Tabari is not the Quran. His exegesis is an opinion, and even in your example,
MADem
Feb 2015
#89
When Muslims pull out the "shatan" references, they aren't playing. They're pissed.
MADem
Feb 2015
#94
Quite true! Technological progress and sociological progress often do not go hand in hand.
RKP5637
Feb 2015
#29
That's a hell of a qualification. It's also not done as a harvest ritual by albino Irish girls.
enki23
Feb 2015
#186
Yes, because the way to save face under well-deserved mockery is to take it ultra-literally.
enki23
Feb 2015
#198
Christians burning people is not a "credible argument" that Christians burn people, "dear?"
enki23
Feb 2015
#202
Insults typically underscore an inability to argue effectively, so let me explain this to you in
whathehell
Feb 2015
#211
Are you... responding to me with arguments against other people? Or are you trying to gaslight me?
enki23
Feb 2015
#229
How about Depleted Uranium and White Phospherus? What religion is the use of these, far more
sabrina 1
Feb 2015
#216
How do you determine that? Many of the supporters and defenders of the burning of Iraqi
sabrina 1
Feb 2015
#220
"Self-defined Christians" can be as non representative of Christianity as Al Queda is of Islam
whathehell
Feb 2015
#222
Much better. It's also much better to fantasize about a brutal rape than to undertake one.
enki23
Feb 2015
#75
Unless you're defining "Christians" very narrowly, cpwm17, your experience is
whathehell
Feb 2015
#141
Once one thinks it is just to infinitely torture one for eternity for having a different opinion
cpwm17
Feb 2015
#171
Yup. "Many" is a weasel word that's a placeholder for something that is not currently quantified.
enki23
Feb 2015
#185
Christians are doing it now, with hellfire missiles and white phosphorous upon occassion
Dragonfli
Feb 2015
#21
Governments use people to do their killing, Those drones are not self aware just yet.
Dragonfli
Feb 2015
#87
How so? "Each individual killer makes a choice to kill or not when asked to"
Dragonfli
Feb 2015
#147
You said governments use people. The fact is, governments are comprised of people,
whathehell
Feb 2015
#152
So are Corporations, but it should not excuse the people within it that are the actual perpetrators
Dragonfli
Feb 2015
#155
The first three make your position clear. The 4th just gives you room to weasel.
Dreamer Tatum
Feb 2015
#117
i have a picture book about the inquisition. the rack in the movies is NOTHING.
pansypoo53219
Feb 2015
#27
Tu quoque is a shitty and fallacious argument and using it to defend burning people alive is...
JVS
Feb 2015
#31
Nah, some people don't give 2 flips about protecting Islam, they just want to stir
FSogol
Feb 2015
#35
Easy to unclog your board. Use ignore or trash thread but it's better to complain about posters
Autumn
Feb 2015
#52
No I just like the emoticons. If Skinner didn't want us to clog up the bord with them we wouldn't
Autumn
Feb 2015
#71
What is your point----That evil lies in the hearts of men of every persuasion? Yeah, and so? It
WinkyDink
Feb 2015
#58
And the Romans fed Christians to the lions. And Aztecs practiced human sacrifice.
randome
Feb 2015
#50
Nope, witch burnings happened many years ago. Words have meanings. 'Few' has an actual definition
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2015
#59
"Suspected Witches Burned Alive By Christians in Kenya." A year and a half ago.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2015
#126
May I briefly bring to mind the photo that is credited for ending the Viet Nam War? The naked
libdem4life
Feb 2015
#80
With all due respect, dropping incinerating materials intended to anhiliate citizens of a town
libdem4life
Feb 2015
#122
Who is WE? And no, it's really not academic at all. ISIS is at war, whether we acknowledge it or
libdem4life
Feb 2015
#133
No, again, we lack the moral ground to be outraged and wag our fingers. If we did not do the same
libdem4life
Feb 2015
#183
I believe your question was Who is We? "We" is a collective yet contextual personal pronoun.
libdem4life
Feb 2015
#210
"We" and by we I mean our elected leaders who claim to be Christians yet always ok sending
Autumn
Feb 2015
#218
Yes, but they had the One True God on their side. Just like ISIS does.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2015
#99
thank you. this was something I pointed out in another OP on the burnings. the roman
niyad
Feb 2015
#106
Christians were burning people to death "a few years back"? What's your definition of a "few years"?
cherokeeprogressive
Feb 2015
#146
Using religion to justify doing nothing when people are being brutalized is
btrflykng9
Feb 2015
#187
It looks like President Obama has been reading DU, and your thread in the past few days.
dissentient
Feb 2015
#191
Yes but then they eventually grew out of the stone age unlike some islamic countries
glasshouses
Feb 2015
#221