08-05-2009, 07:52 PM
I have the utmost respect for anyone who lives a truly moral life. My problem is that whilst morality and religion should go hand in hand, they frequently do not.
And religion is routinely used to justify the most immoral of acts.
As an example, who uttered the notorious words "Kill them all, God will know His own!"
Was it an imam? A Buddhist monk? A Hindu priest or brahmin? A rabbi?
In fact, it was Arnaud Amalric, a Cistercian monk, and the seventeenth abbot of Cîteaux.
And religion is routinely used to justify the most immoral of acts.
As an example, who uttered the notorious words "Kill them all, God will know His own!"
Was it an imam? A Buddhist monk? A Hindu priest or brahmin? A rabbi?
In fact, it was Arnaud Amalric, a Cistercian monk, and the seventeenth abbot of Cîteaux.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war