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#522502
FMG
Amusingly these are the same people who whine when we teach their children science...
6/1/2008 6:44:12 AM
#522503
KatAutumn
What this Marine did was careless. My husband is a former Marine and one of the things they taught them in Infantry School is being respectful of other cultures and religious observations while being stationed abroad. This Marine could have jeopardized his platoon by doing this. The fact that the fundies over at RR feel that saving a few "Muslim souls" is worth jeopardizing our troops is appalling, but I'm not surprised by their response.
6/1/2008 6:45:37 AM
#522506
aaa
More likely event: Sunnis and Shiites unite and start pounding American forces.
6/1/2008 6:46:59 AM
#522519
Ambrielle
Sounds more like the devil prompted him to do such a stupid thing.
6/1/2008 7:09:18 AM
#522540
Eden
They should apply the traditional tests for witches to determine wether Satan made him do it, or the holy spirit.
Maybe the water test is a good idea.
He gets tied up and thrown into a river. Then it is checked wether he floats on the water (meaning that he is possessed by Satan) or sinks (meaning that there is no possession by Satan and he might have done it under influence of the holy spirit).
Of course in he latter case, there might be a certain chance that he might drown (as was often the case when this test was used in medieval times for witch trials), meaning that the declaration of innocence might come posthumous.
6/1/2008 7:38:21 AM
#522560
Antichrist
And if the Muslim decided that this was an attack on his religion and that the Americans should be punished for their insolence? Would that be God's will as well?
It's a powder keg over there, doing stupid shit like that will more than likely get somebody killed.
6/1/2008 7:50:15 AM
#522568
Thinking Allowed
On duty or off duty, he should not be prostylizing to the Iraqi citizens.
6/1/2008 7:58:35 AM
#522569
Thinking Allowed
Eden said:
He gets tied up and thrown into a river. Then it is checked wether he floats on the water (meaning that he is possessed by Satan) or sinks (meaning that there is no possession by Satan and he might have done it under influence of the holy spirit).
It would be easier to see if he weighs as much as a duck.
6/1/2008 8:00:33 AM
#522576
Eden
GOD first, everything and anything other than Him is just static.
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Even the old greeks knew better than yourself:
Panta rhei ("Everything flows")
is something Heraklit postulated as soon as 500 BC,
meaning that everything in this universe changes.
Sounds like you are backwards even compared to the knowldge of the time in which Jesus lived ;)
6/1/2008 8:48:31 AM
#522580
Nowonmai
And you would be screaming blue bloody murder if it was a Muslim proselytizing to Christian citizen, regardless if he was on duty or not.
Hypocrite.
6/1/2008 8:52:58 AM
#522614
Darn
@Thinking Allowed
But only if we use Sir Bedevere's largest scales !!
6/1/2008 9:33:06 AM
#522637
Beeblebrox
But if the spirit had prompted him to do this, then he must submit to Gods' will.
I don't think his superior officers will see it quite that way.
...cause a domino effect as a result of those coins.
Is that the effect where the locals keep repeating "These a**hole Americans really are on another Crusade.!" That'll definitely make us more popular.
6/1/2008 10:14:23 AM
#522644
BlackMageJ
Who knows which one of those muslims might convert
I do! None of them will.
6/1/2008 10:25:29 AM
#522652
Brest
The sad fact is that these idiots don't realize that the war greatly contributed to the sharp decline of the historic Christian community in Iraq.
6/1/2008 10:53:10 AM
#522669
Mister Spak
Hear that knocking on your door? Thats a mujahideen handing out muslim coins.
Who knows which one of you infidels might revert and cause a domino effect as a result of those coins.
6/1/2008 11:49:11 AM
#522675
Princess Rot
How would you know if it was the spirit and not just the voices in his head?
6/1/2008 11:57:38 AM
#522688
szena
With attitudes like these I'm beginning to think that fundies should be kept out of the military. They don't take their oaths seriously and they think they can pick and choose which orders to follow.
6/1/2008 12:15:40 PM
#522693
Illuminatalie
"But if the spirit had prompted him to do this, then he must submit to Gods' will"
It's hard not to feel uneasy when I think of people thinking like this, who have guns. How do they know the difference between "Gods' will" and "their current whims"? Because of how they "feel" about it?
6/1/2008 12:20:23 PM
#522726
John
The spirit didn't prompt him to do it. His typical fundie holier-than-thou, "my religion's better than yours" attitude did. I don't know which one of those Muslims might convert - probably none in a land where people are willing to be suicide bombers for their faith - but we know most of them will be offended and cause a domino effect of blowing up a bunch of Marines as a result of those coins. The American people didn't elect some Marine to interfere with our foreign policy.
6/1/2008 1:26:26 PM
#522735
watchdog
"Who knows which one of those muslims might convert and cause a domino effect as a result of those coins."
You mean like the domino effect of Democracy spreading across the middle east? Sorry neither, the domino effect was disproven with Vietnam.
6/1/2008 1:47:38 PM
#522788
ID82
You can't convert a muslim to christianity. They believe they are a step higher then christians so converting to christianity would be going backwards for them.
6/1/2008 3:24:06 PM
#522814
moose
Doing what the voices in your head tell you too wasn't a valid defense for Andrea Yates; like hell is it going to be a valid defense here.
6/1/2008 3:49:08 PM
#522833
Jezebel's Evil Sister
Has anyone in the history of the universe ever been persuaded to change their religion by a tract or a coin or any of those other tacky fundy gimmicks?
6/1/2008 4:00:13 PM
#522884
Lefty Link
I think god just told me to kill you. Gotta do what he says, right?
6/1/2008 4:45:23 PM
#522925
Isi
"cause a domino effect as a result of those coins"
I can't read the rest of it, but that right there made me snicker for some reason.
6/1/2008 5:40:08 PM
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