Quotes of the Day

Joel at Little Green Footballs puts something into perspective:

For all their talk about Abu Ghraib, it is obvious to me that the MSM knows very little history. Let's for example say for arguemnts sake that everything they allege to have happened at Abu Ghraib is true (I for one think that the Abu Ghraib story is exaggerated. Does that mean that the US mission is a bad one? In World War II, 96 American servicemen were executed, one was Eddie Slovik for desertion, and 95 were for the felonies of murder (firing squad) or rape (hanging). That some American soldiers committed rape and murder mean that we were on par with the S.S. and Gestapo and therefore that the American mission (Eisenhower referred to it as a "Crusade in Europe" in his book)was morally negated? Of course not!

As long as the MP's at Abu Ghraib don't start playing the auditory works of Yoko Ono we should be okay.

And then on the same thread Goat Guy lays out the differences between how Muslims deal with the Koran and how Christians see the Bible:

This is one of so many "things" that I have come to appreciate about modern Christianity. It does not venerate a book. But it does The Word. Strictly, it doesn't venerate a building, but the Temple in the Heart. It doesn't propose a spreadsheet of cans, can'ts, of do-this-and-it-negates-that crap. It demands only that one take responsibility for their actions, that they think of others, that they try as hard as possible to retire the primitive notions of 'honor', and 'vindication', of collective judgement and retribution. Nothing - nothing! - is authorized as action the believer must take to countenance the besmirched honor of the God of the Word. Nothing.

And that is something that separates us from the Muslims - in the biggest way. We simply put do not have (either Judaisim or Christianity) a sense of object-honor. Its all philosophy. And it is brilliantly non-judgemental, so long as the follower of the faith tries to improve.

Basically, I think of the Koran as merely the written record of the rantings and ravings of an illiterate paedophile-rapist, robber, and murderer.

But what do I know? I only read history as it actually happened.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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