Comments on: Bush, Ahmadinejad and The War Against Cliche http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/09/09/bush-ahmadinejad-and-the-war-against-cliche/ A Fresh Look at News, Politics and History Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: brooklyn http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/09/09/bush-ahmadinejad-and-the-war-against-cliche/#comment-92 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:10:48 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/09/09/bush-ahmadinejad-and-the-war-against-cliche/#comment-92 Well, Stokely, I don't agree with your diagnosis that religion is at the heart of these problems. I believe that folks like George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Osama Bin Laden use religion as a surrogate for ethnic bigotry. They are essentially nationalists and militarists, and they do not show any of the sublime understanding of the universal human plight that all religions teach. Well, Stokely, I don’t agree with your diagnosis that religion is at the heart of these problems. I believe that folks like George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Osama Bin Laden use religion as a surrogate for ethnic bigotry. They are essentially nationalists and militarists, and they do not show any of the sublime understanding of the universal human plight that all religions teach.

]]> by: Stokely http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/09/09/bush-ahmadinejad-and-the-war-against-cliche/#comment-91 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:15:22 +0000 http://www.thecherryorchard.org/2006/09/09/bush-ahmadinejad-and-the-war-against-cliche/#comment-91 Q: What makes religious extremists dangerous? A: The number of followers they have. So why do so many people follow religious lunatics? It seems these followers are lost - morally, culturally - emotionally scared to death unless they have someone telling them what to do. This is the underlying tragedy of all religion. Taken to heart, followed to the letter of the law - all religions are extreme, radical, lunacy. Freedom non-exists without freedom of thought. Religion eliminates freedom of thought. The basis of religion - is thought control. Q: Why would anyone follow Ahmadinejad, or Bush, Bin Laden, or Warren Jeffs? A: Because they have relinquished the responsibility to think for themselves. They let God (and his political stand-ins) do the thinking for them. Q: What makes religious extremists dangerous?
A: The number of followers they have.

So why do so many people follow religious lunatics? It seems these followers are lost - morally, culturally - emotionally scared to death unless they have someone telling them what to do. This is the underlying tragedy of all religion. Taken to heart, followed to the letter of the law - all religions are extreme, radical, lunacy. Freedom non-exists without freedom of thought. Religion eliminates freedom of thought. The basis of religion - is thought control.

Q: Why would anyone follow Ahmadinejad, or Bush, Bin Laden, or Warren Jeffs?
A: Because they have relinquished the responsibility to think for themselves. They let God (and his political stand-ins) do the thinking for them.

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