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Originally Posted by Woodsprite
But... Hitler wasn't a Christian. Sure, there were propaganda photos of him like this one, but he wasn't a Christian. That was a facade for religious people in Germany to vote for him at the time.
...And Bin Laden has claimed on numerous occasions that what was done was done in the name of Islam, not in the name of "revenge" or "anger". The U.S. was the primary target because we're regarded by many Middle Eastern Muslims as the "Satan of the World", and it isn't because we occupy a few countries... |
The two are not terribly different. It's easier to get people to support you if you're working in the name of Allah to rid the world of evil than it is if you say you're attacking the US because they invented Israel and Israel is a jerk.
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Originally Posted by Human No More
Would you be fine with people having sex in public then?
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Yes. I'd certainly hope they'd be sanitary about it and not do it somewhere really creepy like a crowded bus stop where you have to rub elbows with everyone around you but if people wanted to have sex in the park or the beach or their lawn or some equally public yet out of the way place I'd be totally fine with that. If I don't like it then I won't do it. If I don't like that they're doing it then it's no different than how I feel seeing people support the Tea Party.
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Originally Posted by Human No More
Some things should be kept private, because there is no public benefit in them being public anyway.
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If religions were not public then ignorance would be even more widespread and their ability to spread the word about what they believe to be essential to salvation would be largely disabled. It is therefor beneficial for both the religion and the general populace that religions be public rather than private.
On a related note if sex were public we'd very probably suffer from a lot less sexual repression as a society so it's at least feasible that there would be benefits to that, too.
In largely unrelated news, I love this thread.