No…it is not a world on Star Trek! It can best be describes as…..an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.
I guess I started thinking about this after the Mosque saga and then onto the preacher in Florida and his silly idea of burning the Koran…….(glad to say at the time of this writing the preacher has canceled the burning event). Do you not love the idea of an organization named “Dove World Outreach”…the dove? The symbol of peace….used as a tool for hate…gotta love the nuts on these people…..a Christian organization? Makes me think of something Gandhi once said…”I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
Xenophobia? Remember the days of yore, the 1920’s and 30’s, in Germany…. a party came to power basically blaming a whole race for the troubles of the country….before we have lots of BS…I am only comparing political atmosphere here)….then there were idiot zealots that flew planes into buildings all in the name of religion…..and then there was a Mosque that was purposed and the crazies started blaming a whole religion for the act of a couple of morons….and now we have had this Christ wannabe threatening to burn the holy book of a religion because it is somehow “evil”….again blaming an entire religion for the acts of a few nut jobs……it was hate in the 1920’s…it is hate today!
This can be said to be one of those “recurrent cycles” that I have been writing about….this type of thinking has occurred and re-occurred many times throughout history….when times are tough…especially economic times…..we tend to try and blame someone for the troubles and that is where the xenophobic attitude prevails…..
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”……..do you know who said that?……..(pause here for reflection)…….not sure? It was the hero of the conservatives….Thomas Jefferson……all the whackos quote him liberally with the tree of liberty thing and maybe they should spend a little more time reading about the man……for he saw what hate really was…..HATE! No matter how hard we try we cannot disguise hate as anything but what it is …..HATE!
Yes. Good post. Of course it’s just hate, whatever name they try to wrap it up with. For heaven’s sake – the Koran burning jerk admits he hasn’t even read the f*cking thing – ever – so how can he possibly comment on it?
You know when we think about it….we could take the Bible, Torah or Koran and we could find passages in them all to justify whatever it is we hate…..
Isn’t that what extremists and cultists do all the time – whatever the basic religion? It’s all about money and/or power – nothing else… never has been!
Yep….we can go back and find many many examples…..
Okay, this was a bizarre post.
How vague this word “hate” has become. And it certainly is a one-way road. No one talks about the fact that the Left hates everything conservatives stand for…which is why they do everything in their power to destroy those things. They’ve successfully incentivized government dependency, discouraged traditional marriage, encouraged promiscuity and sexual deviancy, delegitimized personal responsibility, and destroyed individual liberty.
And the hate spewed from the Islamic scriptures, the imams and clerics, the mosques, the Muslim books…that hate doesn’t count.
But the “hatred of Islam” from a rinky-dink backwater hill-billy church is reminiscent of the Nazis.
Boy, are we seeing things through some murky glasses or what?!
Come on…you know I am talking about the fact that xenophobia is the problem…..fear of someone who believes differently doe NOT make them wrong….as far as the violence goes……I can find passages in ANY of the major holy books that will reinforce my hate….
Lobo, it is not xenophobia. The more people learn about Islam in this country, the more they hate it (except the convicts in state prison, go figure.)
It is not just about “violent passages.”. It is about the explicit command to hate and kill and subjugate nonbelievers who do not submit to the will of Allah. Jihad is Islamic doctrine. Dying while killing (or trying to kill kuffaar) is the only 100% guaranteed way one can get to heaven. Otherwise you are stuck hoping that when you die, your good deeds outweigh your bad.
Islam places a burdensome yoke on its adherents.
But it is …….to you maybe not so….but to the masses it is…..because a handful of morons want to kill…..does not mean that all want to kill….
How do you know what the “masses” are thinking and why they are rejecting Islam in ever-increasing numbers?
Amazing.
Just like FOX News knows what the people are thinking……
And it’s not about a “handful of morons” who “want to kill.”
It’s about tens of thousands of Muslims who feel obligated to do so, and the millions and millions of Muslims who feel obligated to support them in their jihadi mission.
This is why religion is a pig of a topic for discussion…..it always boils down to us against them…….makes no difference which of the major religions we talk about….it is always the same….that is why there will be NO peace……
There is no peace when some people are willing to speak the truth in the face of a dangerous lie.
Sorry for the delay…I have been up to my butt in conferences with little free time…..please do not misunderstand…I am NOT saying that Islam is better than any other religion……I always think about what Jefferson once wrote:
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”