Eight years ago today, evil arrived in the form of the hijackers of commercial aircraft. The damage they did that day should never be forgotten, for until their sycopahnts are wiped off the face of the earth, they will look upon this day as one of celebration.
Strangely, the hijackers acted out of revenge for acts they believed should be classified as evil. Things like us parking an extremely small contingent of our military’s air corp in their “Holy Land” so that we could keep the murderous and war mongering secular dictator in the country next to their “Holy Land” from invading his neighbors and killing his own people. Or, not making “our women” wear a head-to-toe blackout curtain and allowed them to drive. Or for not renouncing our sky pixie and worshipping their sky pixie.
For such evil things as those, 19 cowards boarded and took command of four privately owned civilian commercial aircraft loaded with innocents and crashed them into three buildings and one farm field, killing over 3000 people in the process.
If instead of blindly following their sky pixie, which instructs them to wipe civilizations and their history from the human record, they would have instead opened their minds just a fraction and listened to a Greek philosopher, maybe they wouldn’t have been so willing to die.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
When will Islam undergo its Reformation?
Just as those 19 men hijacked those aircraft and turned them into missiles of war on the US, so has fundamental Islam hijacked a basically peaceful religion (and it’s written guidance)and turned it into an instrument of war propaganda.
The fundies now OWN Islam. We shouldn’t feel bad about striking down any mosque, and Islamic Republic or any Islamic leader, but we do.
We are our own worst enemy, because we fail to cleanse the world of our sworn enemies, the Islamic Mullahs.
Our War on Terror will end badly, and soon. Even though he stands to be a one-term President, Obama will probably set back our efforts against our fundie Islamic enemies so far that it will be too expensive in lives to restart the war, unless his successor want to prosecute that war from Dakota wheatfields.
They weren’t cowards … you can’t make a coward perform a suicide attack. The mullahs that sent them were the cowards.
Christianity had its reformation once secular rulers got tired of their heretic burning crap, and started executing priests for whipping up mobs.
Islam will require similar outside intervention … I suggest we start by killing any mullah, anywhere, who makes the mistake of advocating death for Americans.
Put these mullah cowards in harms way, and I’ll bet they re-interpret Islam pretty damned quick.
Epicuris knew nothing about God, and proved it by trying to wrap a tiny human mind around Him.
The Reformation in Christianity had absolutely nothing to do with secular rulers getting tired of heretic burning. Truly Kristopher, you’re way off base there. Learn your history. And really, we don’t want Islam to reform, in “The Reformation” sense of the term, since that is a return to scriptural belief and practice. God knows the Koran is certainly not the guide to peaceful living we’d all like to see those folks following. The fundies are the only ones who are following the religion Mohammed invented.
Evil, yes.
I wholeheartedly disagree, Kris. You can get a coward to do anything, including end his own life to take those of others, with the right coaching/brainwashing.
If you don’t believe those men were cowards then you don’t know the definition of “bravery”.
Oh, and Bill, the human mind is puny.
HP Lovecraft is quoted as saying something along the lines of “Thank goodness we’re so ignorant of the universe around us, otherwise we’d go insane.”
There is very little more true than that sentence.
I disagree with the conclusion that if God is able to prevent evil and does not that He is therefore malevolent.
In order for Him to prevent evil, He would have to take away almost all of man’s freedoms. That is what would make Him evil and malevolent.
I disagree, Geek. He wouldn’t have to remove freedoms, just knowledge. He’s already made us only slightly less ignorant than lesser mammals, and it is likely we wouldn’t even notice.