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   From: quibbler247@yahoo.com   
      
   As Americans are progressively turning against the US lead, christianist   
   Unholy war in Iraq, I think it's important for atheists and humanists to   
   frame this discussion in terms of religious conflict.  There were, of   
   course, many reasons that lying neocons took us on this half-trillion   
   dollar military misadventure, money, oil and power being chief among   
   their motives.  But it was also a revived crusade against the muslims,   
   declared by Pope George, and the desire to stir up a new cold war jihadi   
   adversary to have someone to fight against for the foreseeable future.   
   Without a perpetual war, the extremists in the Crusader and Jihader   
   factions wouldn't have a cause to justify their militancy.  Atheists and   
   humanists need to point out that the only way to insure that we avoid   
   this sort of holy war nonsense in the future is to make sure that our   
   leaders and principal decision-makers are no longer religious loons.   
      
   And contrary to what Dumbshit D'Souza maintains, it is not because we are   
   "secular" that islamolunatics want to attack us. First off, only a tiny   
   percent of our nation is secular at all and secondly, they would just   
   come up with another excuse, like us being infidels or having a jewish   
   population.  They attack because that's what religionist fanatics do.  It   
   doesn't help that the US runs around trying to stick its nose in every   
   other country's business for financial and hegemonistic reasons.  But at   
   least without ChristInsanity running the show in the US there would be   
   less incentive for our leaders to seek out international mischief to   
   begin with.   
      
   --   
         Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)   
   "It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the   
   threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'   
   disease, and many others, but I think a case can be   
   made that faith is one of the world's great evils,   
   comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to   
   eradicate."  -- Richard Dawkins   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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