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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>]

The question is: were they killing for religon or their idea of
freedom from US hegemony and oppression of their cultures by
over-powering US-corporation-led commercialization and US support of
what they view as morally corrupt and unrepresentative governments?

Pass me another Royale with cheese, thanks.

~ian


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:49:04 -0500, Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com> wrote:
> I'm sure Christians as well as aetheists guilty of violence.
> 
> I've even heard of some Muslims guilty of violence in the name of religion.
> 
> 
> ;)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Czeiszperger [mailto:michael AT czeiszperger.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:39 PM
> > To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> > Subject: Re: [internetworkers] why am I not surprised?
> >
> >
> > On Dec 2, 2004, at 5:29 PM, Tony Spencer wrote:
> >
> > > I have a close friend whose car is permanently damaged from
> > egging just
> > > before the election.  Her Bush '04 sticker was ripped off.  Stupid
> > > people
> > > exist on both sides of the isle.
> >
> > By all accounts there was election vandalism by both sides.  But that
> > is political, and I'm talking about religious violence. I
> > believe that
> > christians are guilty of all sorts of violence against any
> > they believe
> > are deserving of punishment, wether it be killing doctors or
> > threatening atheist children with knives, all the way down to simple
> > vandalism.  The study on religious violence I read based on crime
> > statistics showed relatively few incidents of violence or vandalism
> > against christians compared to other religions. The vast majority of
> > religious violence in the US is actually performed by christians
> > against Jews and Muslims.
> >
> > http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/downey_24_4.htm
> >
> > _______________________________________
> > michael at czeiszperger dot org
> > Chapel Hill, NC USA
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