tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post3996264741816557374..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: The Perils of a Siege MentalityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-17910144007670068692011-02-08T18:27:15.751-05:002011-02-08T18:27:15.751-05:00Please! You can hardly compare the Christian right...Please! You can hardly compare the Christian right to radical totalitarian Islam. The Christians have lived in this American republic since the inception and remain tolerant of other religions. Granted,they have had some issues with church and state,but one can hardly compare Roe v Wade to a world Caliphate and sharia law.<br />There is a notorious gun store in Grand Jnction CO. Above the door is a sign that reads:"I'll see your jihad and raise you one crusade." I am atheist, but should it come to holy war I will stand,<br />fight, and die with my Christian brothers if need be, to defeat this anti-man, anti-civilization cult of death known as Islam.Gene Palmisanohttp://www.raveler.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-32849322630238656162010-12-29T13:56:21.475-05:002010-12-29T13:56:21.475-05:00Michael,
Reagan's foreign policy was just as a...Michael,<br />Reagan's foreign policy was just as awful as every President in at least the last fifty years (and really much longer), and it was specifically so bad because he was being a simple-minded conservative in the fullest sense of the term.<br /><br />Islamic dictatorships have been stealing massive amounts of Western-developed oil they did not develop since roughly the 1940s and 1950s. They do not protect people's natural freedoms and property. Their society helplessly goes along with and allows religious terrorist organizations to operate within their countries--and they do not make their government stop it. They do not develop even a semi-rational, freedom-respecting culture. That makes them politically responsible for the violence (and resource and property plundering) their governments and the terrorist groups in their borders commit.<br /><br />It is the simple-minded conservative sense of life and mentality that Reagan embodied in his political ideas that refuses to work out complex ideas and policies, such as it being morally proper for freedom-respecting people to defend itself by using massive force upon a society that allows primitive terrorist groups and dictatorial governments to rule them and refuses to develop culturally.<br /><br />Tea-Party "common sense" will never lead to a foreign policy that has the courage and intellectual seriousness and certainty to make an example of a major Islamic regime.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-75087691009861082922010-12-28T23:11:17.156-05:002010-12-28T23:11:17.156-05:00Are we discussing the unchecked and steadily growi...Are we discussing the unchecked and steadily growing problem of recrudescent Islamic supremacism, or are we going to re-hash 'Nam?<br /><br />The problem is not "America's foreign policy". The problem as it now stands is an aggressive worldwide movement by a 7th century Dark Ages form of theocracy to dominate the world and the refusal of those in charge of our defense to recognize and defend against us.revereridesagainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-602349736496701762010-12-28T22:36:58.050-05:002010-12-28T22:36:58.050-05:00Reagan did withdraw American troops from Lebanon -...Reagan did withdraw American troops from Lebanon - but that was the RIGHT decision. Reagan made a mistake by sending them to Lebanon in the first instance. That 283 <br />Marines were killed was not a reason to prolong the intervention, but to withdraw American troops from Lebanon. And this intervention was yet ANOTHER example of the <br />defects of America’s foreign policy. Even during the Cold War, the USA’s foreign policy allowed most of America’s allies to free-ride on the backs of American soldiers and caused unnecessary war adventures, the most notorious of which was the Vietnamese war.Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-44984346213133681262010-12-28T19:26:49.386-05:002010-12-28T19:26:49.386-05:00If anyone's interested there's another com...If anyone's interested there's another comments war going on over at JihadWatch with someone ranting that all the "Islamic curses" and "negativity" are wearing down the faithful and need to be fought by "deliberate blessing, acts of charity, prayer and fasting". I really do think we're in danger of a holy war here if the Christians get much more hysterical and insistent that only their Jesus Son of God Our King yadda yadda can defeat the enemy now.<br /><br />Having spent many years investigating cults with a speciality in occultists I do know that "curses" can raise havoc with the minds of susceptible people, which is anyone who thinks mystical emanations of emotions have some kind of physical power. Which is too damn many people, so we have a nasty problem with the effects of this sort of thinking.<br /><br />Meanwhile, excellent presentations by both Robert Spencer and Pam Geller to a human rights conference. They are cogent and rational and tireless and expert at boiling the danger of Islam down into understanable concepts. We could use an army of them.revereridesagainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-15876834062499637982010-12-28T14:17:47.338-05:002010-12-28T14:17:47.338-05:00Roger, I think you just summed it up. Every time I...Roger, I think you just summed it up. Every time I think think this mess can't get more terrifying, it does. "Duck-and-cover" air raid drills, USSR 50-megaton hydrogen bombs, Cuban Missle Crises and the whole 40 years of the Cold War is nothing compared to the prospect of two religious hysteria-fueled armies of gods going at each other for control and domination over the rest of us.revereridesagainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-82390658055305917222010-12-28T13:23:20.623-05:002010-12-28T13:23:20.623-05:00Looks like the Crusades are about to start all ove...Looks like the Crusades are about to start all over again, but this time with better transportation and much deadlier weapons. I fear for my grandson...Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-51781003873132276012010-12-28T08:44:09.535-05:002010-12-28T08:44:09.535-05:00Thank you, Revereridesagain, for those sites. I wi...Thank you, Revereridesagain, for those sites. I will book mark them post haste. I desperately need a dose of reason, a large one. RoR and ARC have been sustenance, but I need a full meal.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14871995062048215902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-65088170203596104752010-12-27T17:38:56.142-05:002010-12-27T17:38:56.142-05:00Hi Teresa -- the answer is: not many places! There...Hi Teresa -- the answer is: not many places! There is, of course, this site and Dugout, and Bosch's, but finding good-quality, active sites with a focus on monitoring Islam that don't have a Christian slant is difficult. The other sites I visit frequently -- JihadWatch, Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Bare Naked Islam, Jawa Report, Pam Geller's AtlasShrugs and several others, have excellent coverage (BNI is utterly fearless about exposing the violence and horror of Islam) of news pertaining to the Islamic jihad, as do Citizen Warrior and Infidel Task force. Andrew Bostom and several other authors who expose Islam have good sites. <br /><br />Unfortunately, most have a religious slant to some degree. They all "welcome" agnostics and atheists, and some good atheist contributors and commentors visit all of them. But the "kingdom-of-god" point of view is everpresent. <br /><br />If you need some comic relief, btw, Iowahawk is consistently hilarious, first-rate satire; and Pat Condell's videos at his British site can make you stand up and cheer.revereridesagainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-68891930177923006962010-12-27T15:14:15.974-05:002010-12-27T15:14:15.974-05:00revereridesagain: Where do you find anti-Islam sit...revereridesagain: Where do you find anti-Islam sites that don't push Christianity?Teresanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-43063630161255202472010-12-27T14:18:31.532-05:002010-12-27T14:18:31.532-05:00RevereRidesagian: You have every right to be conce...RevereRidesagian: You have every right to be concerned. As I remarked to you on Facebook, the Christian theocratically-minded now feel it's safe to come out of the woodwork, now that they've had some success in the midterms. Take, for example, Canada Free Press. Over the last year it ran some boffo articles, but lately it's been pushing the Christian agenda. Pajamas and PJTV are also leaning in that direction. Yes, this will have an effect on who the Republican candidate will be in 2012. Also, it's odd that many Tea Party ads and promos have virtually vanished from the Internet; at least, I haven't seen much from them. All we can do now is remember the "we few" speech in Henry V. Yes, it's scary that we're being assaulted not only by Islamists, but by our buddies, the Christian right, just the other side of the same coin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-88962890937883576112010-12-27T12:17:08.358-05:002010-12-27T12:17:08.358-05:00I wonder if the increasingly sheep-ish attitude of...I wonder if the increasingly sheep-ish attitude of Americans is beginning to manifest in claims that only a "Christian Nation" can defeat Islam.<br /><br />I bookmark anti-Islam sites with an eye to relative lack of Christian religiousity because I don't need two sources of irritation for the price of one. Most dislike but tolerate anti-jihad-minded atheists. Perhaps it is just "the season", but I sense a slight upsurge in calls for some form of Christian theocracy, both from commentors and now bloggers themselves. There are more references to the "Kingdom of God" and "Jesus Our Only Lord/Rightful King", calls to substitute "God's Magnificient Kingdom" for the rule of reason, and insistence that Christian mores be granted greater influence on this nation's laws. All this at the same time we are trying to stave off Islamic Sharia. And I'm concerned about the influence it will have on the choice of presidential candidates.<br /><br />So am I paranoid, is it too much egg nog, or is some game afoot?revereridesagainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-65162591313077517272010-12-26T12:43:29.647-05:002010-12-26T12:43:29.647-05:00"Suicidal" is right. Didn't Ayn Rand..."Suicidal" is right. Didn't Ayn Rand write somewhere that there isn't a single group in America that isn't pursuing a course of suicide? Well, just extend that to the country as a whole. I am starting to believe in an American death-wish.Slade Calhounnoreply@blogger.com