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By: The War God rising at Thudfactor

The War God rising at Thudfactor — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:02:47 +0000

[...] says Christians don’t get violent when insulted, but I say wait and watch. We’re getting [...]

By: Thudfactor » The War God in the South

Thudfactor » The War God in the South — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:31:43 +0000

By: Thud

Thud — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:36:36 +0000

Will this [Battlecry rallies, I assume] result in wide-spread violence?

That’s what I’m afraid of. Such mega-rallies certainly read like incitement to violence.

By: gls

gls — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:57:31 +0000

Of course, who knows what those protesting were told the pope said? If you read his whole lecture, it’s clear the pope wasn’t condemning Islam.

Translation must be an issue as well. I’d bet many of the reports of B-XVI’s comments in the Muslim world were based on the English translations of the original German speech. Add to it the fact that the pope was quoting a French source and it’s easy to see how things could get twisted.

So there are certainly other aspects at play here, not the least of which being the socioeconomic imbalance. But there are a great number of poor Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, etc. and you just don’t see that kind of vitriol in those communities when they feel their religion has been offended.

I’m not feeling all that great about the prospects for civilized religion what with people like Luce organizing post-apocalyptic religious tent revivals.

Will this result in wide-spread violence?

By: Thud

Thud — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:57:31 +0000

I think if you look at it in those terms, you’re removing the issue from the historical, sociological, and political contexts. I don’t think you can comparing the behavior of well-off and (by worldwide standards) reasonably well-educated Westerners to the behavior of poverty-stricken people whose violent acts are supported by government and paramilitary organizations and reach any meaningful conculsion about the value of a particular faith.

You’ll notice that American muslims, for the most part, are not rioting in the streets here in the US.

That said, I’m not feeling all that great about the prospects for civilized religion what with people like Luce organizing post-apocalyptic religious tent revivals.