Good Lord, peace reigns! On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 3:29:52 AM UTC, archytas wrote: > > Killing cartoonists clearly can't be allowed. There is no absolute > authority for jihad, crusades or lacking a self-depreciating sense of > humour prepared to rip loved ones from the lives of relatives and friends. > The most common 'cause' of killing and war in primitive societies is > revenge, generally pretty dumb. > > On the day Charlie Hebdo was struck, Boko Haram was doing much worse in > Nigeria and 2000 died. Yemen was pasted again. 25 million or so have died > in wars after WW2 and any number of people have had peaceful lives > destroyed by various forms of imperialism. We understand revenge films > where the child not slaughtered by Barbarians grows to destroy them. There > are at least questions we should be asking on whether fundamentalist Islam > is radicalising terrorists, or the various imperialisms and the conditions > these create in countries kept poor and run by installed despots. > > Institutional religion is no use to me and I detest the hostility of those > believers who would have me respect belief in superstition,clearly false > history, varieties of justified sexism, racism, apartheid and selfish > chosen-peopleism. This extends far beyond religion and to false ideas that > the Greek Enlightenment was the zenith of civilisation. This was a sexist, > racist, slave economy. Western democratic free trade liberalism is such a > lie as to be merely another control fraud, not the end of history. > > There is little clarity. We stand as Charlie for free speech, yet do > nothing against indecent Saudi floggings and beheadings. We have never > produced democratic foreign policy, population control or sustained peace. > Now we are arresting people protesting publicly against Charlie, somewhat > contradictory to say the least. All that seems clear is that we are all > Charleys, without much of a system to openly discuss what is wrong, leaving > tyranny anywhere a threat to freedom everywhere. >
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