[QualityReachOut]

BBC News - 'Why I burnt my Nigerian friend's house down'

[Dndjzirw]

Godless heathens. What these people need is some religion.

[Unrersvar]

Africa has never been able to pull itself out of the stone age, and thanks to their backwards religious beliefs and low culture, quite possibly never will.

[disappointment2]

thanks to their backwards religious beliefs and low culture

Aren't some of the victims (and perpetrators) in this case the same religion as you?

[Dndjzirw]

Aren't some of the victims (and perpetrators) in this case the same religion as you?

Yeah, but a different color. Doesn't count.

[infarrelisam]

Africa has never been able to pull itself out of the stone age, and thanks to their backwards religious beliefs and low culture, quite possibly never will.

And the rest of the world's religious beliefs and culture and violence levels are so advanced? The word pogrom emerged from white Europe.

[Unrersvar]

Aren't some of the victims (and perpetrators) in this case the same religion as you?

The vast majority of third world "Christians" don't practice in a way that a civilized Christian would recognize as nominally approaching The Traditional Christian beliefs. Anamisim, ancestor-worship, traditional tribal gods, and other bizarre elements are all heavilly present in third-world Christian practice.

[Unrersvar]

And the rest of the world's religious beliefs and culture and violence levels are so advanced? The word pogrom emerged from white Europe.

By far, the worst bloodshed in Europe occured when Religion (God) was removed from society.

You can tell a culture by the civilization it creates.

[kasandrasikl]

The vast majority of third world "Christians" don't practice in a way that a civilized Christian would recognize as nominally approaching The Traditional Christian beliefs. Anamisim, ancestor-worship, traditional tribal gods, and other bizarre elements are all heavilly present in third-world Christian practice.

So what? It's all nonsense, you just believe in European nonsense. Doesn't make it any less full of ****. And to pretend things like Saints aren't a Christian form of ancestor worship is to be lying through your teeth. You wanna argue about who's sky-man is more right, go ahead, but don't act like your beliefs are any more valid, especially on a forum I post, because I won't let that sort of bald-faced lying slide.

By far, the worst bloodshed in Europe occured when Religion (God) was removed from society. Absolute nonsense. The worst period of bloodshed in Europe was World War II, and while much of it was political, why exactly were the Jews targeted...oh, that's right, because they were Jewish. A religion.

[Unrersvar]

Absolute nonsense. The worst period of bloodshed in Europe was World War II, and while much of it was political, why exactly were the Jews targeted...oh, that's right, because they were Jewish. A religion.

So the Jews started WWII? And I thought it was the Nazis and Japanese who worshiped invented or living dieties.

Sorry, take a look at Russia. Stalin 40 million dead. Although the country still isn't civilized, China. Mao left about 70 million dead.

With such shocking death totals on your side of the ledger, you have NO room to talk.

[Unrersvar]

So what? It's all nonsense, you just believe in European nonsense. Doesn't make it any less full of ****.

Except that one "nonsense" produced the technology to put a man on the moon. The other one produced the ability to put a bone through one's nose.

[Konservir]

Except that one "nonsense" produced the technology to put a man on the moon. The other one produced the ability to put a bone through one's nose.

This just in: Organized religion (specifically European Christianity apparently) responsible for Apollo Program (ironically named after a pagan god). Film at eleven.

[BliliBoopsy]

In recorded history, few things, if anything, have caused as much trouble as religion. And there might not even be a God.

[Caunnysup]

But he reserved his sharpest invective for his foreign hosts, particularly if they were Catholic.

"We were in the heart and home of priestcraft - of a happy, cheerful, contented ignorance, superstition, degradation, poverty, indolence, and everlasting unaspiring worthlessness," Twain wrote from rural Italy. "And we said fervently, it suits these people precisely; let them enjoy it, along with the other animals." More than a quarter-century later, Following the Equator reveals a very different Twain. From Australia and New Zealand to South Africa and India, he was struck first and foremost by the ways white colonists oppressed and dehumanized their subjects. In South Africa, Boers shot blacks with impunity; Australians did the same to aborigines.

"In many countries we have taken the savage's land from him, and made him our slave, and lashed him every day, and broken his pride, and made death his only friend, and overworked him till he dropped in his tracks," Twain wrote. "There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
Mark Twain's travels with the 'savages' | Philadelphia Inquirer | 04/23/2010

I'm sure Viburnum will find humor in it...

[PRengin]

This just in: Organized religion (specifically European Christianity apparently) responsible for Apollo Program (ironically named after a pagan god). Film at eleven.

+9.

[Caunnysup]

This just in: Organized religion (specifically European Christianity apparently) responsible for Apollo Program (ironically named after a pagan god). Film at eleven.

Not to mention that the father of American missile and space program was none other than Verner von Braun, a Nazi sympathizer and Christian scientist par excellence...he got nicely rehabilitated in Huntsville, Alabama among all the wonderful white southern christian folk...

OTOH, Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, famously quoted from the Hindu holy text of Bhagvad Gita when first witnessing the power of the bomb, thusly:

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one." and "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

And after the war, worked tirelessly to put the genie back in the bottle. Of course, he would not be the only Jewish scientist from that time period to have been affected by Hinduism. Albert Einstein was another major figure to have his life molded by eastern religion, and was friends with Mahatma Gandhi and to vegetarian causes.


But, let's not muddy the issue. Western christians are the superior race-religion combo, all else is a big FAIL. That's how it always was, and that's how it always will be.

[Unrersvar]

This just in: Organized religion (specifically European Christianity apparently) responsible for Apollo Program (ironically named after a pagan god). Film at eleven.

And what's your explanation for one culture leaving the other several thousand years in the past?

[gardeniyas]

This just in: Organized religion (specifically European Christianity apparently) responsible for Apollo Program (ironically named after a pagan god). Film at eleven.

Hehe

[Konservir]

And what's your explanation for one culture leaving the other several thousand years in the past?

Oh I was just making fun of what a tool you are, I'm sorry did you think I was making a serious point of some kind?

[gardeniyas]

And what's your explanation for one culture leaving the other several thousand years in the past?

Africa Joins the Space Race | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

Just saying.

(P.S. I know they've got some catchin up to do).