Of Catholics, Christians, Jews and Muslims.

Of Catholics, Christians, Jews and Muslims.

Short Story: Final game of the state basketball championships; everybody’s looking to the star player. The pressure is not really something to be scoffed at…and so he goes to a quiet corner, drops to his knees and prays, begging the good lord to let his team win…promising never to miss a practice session again, to get his grades up, to be a better person in general…
This time, the good lord actually answers! He tells the player, that he’d really love it if he did all the stuff that he promised, but at the same time, the other team was also asking for the same thing… How can the good lord play favourites?
So he offers him a compromise…he offers to make the game an honourable one, to make all the calls fair and all the decisions accurate.

Ok, kinda corny i know, but i did like it. Read that story somewhere, cant remember where right now, but it brings me to the title of this post..

I look around today and realize that the majority of the major conflicts today are between Christians, Jews and Muslims. And all are because all of us are cocksure that ours is the penultimate one true path.

The Muslim extremists are itching to slap a jehad on the infidels for the glory ofAllah…Our Catholic fanatics are just as willing to slaughter anyone that doesnot submit to the glory of “Our Father” and to protect their children form "Zionist propaganda". And the Jews are ready willing and able to annihilate anyone who so much as thinks of laying a finger on them. (In their defence though, they never start anything, although they have no qualms about finishing it.)

But I read somewhere, that if we were to trace back the the lineage of all three religions we come to one common ancestor: Abraham. And we’re all fighting for the alleged ‘glory’ of the same god, Abrahams god.

What the heck makes us think that any God, will help some of his people annihilate the others…? That we're his favourite? Maybe instead of praying for victory, we should be looking for tolerance...

Terrorism

Terrorism:

This is in response to the post of the same title on leopolds.blogspot .com.

"REVENGE!!" he cries!!
The world wants revenge!
India wants revenge!!
"All your nuclear weapons, your missiles, your tanks, come to nought when you don't have the steel in your soul to defend yourself and your subjects -- at any cost.
Has the Indian State done this? Ever?"
His exact words if I’m not mistaken...

My question at this point is...revenge against whom?
"The terrorists of course!!"
Really? And who are they?
This is the part where every one seems to get stumped.
Lets take the train blasts that you were ranting about. Who exactly do we want to crucify. Or do we pick a scapegoat just because somebody has to go down for it? I KNOW!! Lets catch all these bastards with beards and slaughter them, innocence irrelevant… Oh but I read that they always shave off all body hair in preparation for the entry into heaven….so lets slaughter all the clean shaven fuckers too. But there are a lot of average people who help them also, so lets slaughter them too!! Woohoo!! BLOODBATH!!

You want revenge. But it’s real easy to sit on the flat of your arse and talk. Who do you wanna strike back at? Where exactly do you plan to fire your missiles and all your other phallic symbols and paraphernalia? Hasn’t anyone heard o the expression “You can’t hit what you can’t see!”

“Israel attacked Lebanon for killing two of its soldiers.”
This is apparently his idea of a comparison to India. Who exactly do you wanna go to war with? Pakistan? You know what, lets just consider that for a bit. We launch your big bad nukes , they nuke us right back….who do you think stands to lose more? You honestly wanna try that? You wanna go to war? Are you willing to put your sons and daughters in the line of fire?

“I cannot but notice that the United States of America, after its attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq has not faced any terrorist attack since 9/11.”
Really? And why do you suppose that is? Because they went to war? Moron!! Doesn’t it occur to you to stop and ask how exactly they knew to attack Afghanistan? What the US of A has is the CIA. The best intelligence agency in the world, second only to The Mossad, which is the Israeli intelligence agency! THAT is what this country needs. Not some trigger-happy idiot who wants to gun down everything that moves. Think about it. The world didn’t know Osama even existed till The USA announced that he was behind 9/11 and that they were planning on going after him. And they went after him tooth and nail. It’s not about using your fists just because you have them. Your fists are of no use if you don’t have eyes.

And as much as you may wanna deride it, peace is your only viable option. The best way to combat it is to cut funding to countries supporting terror…cut off all trade avenues…make sure that nothing gets in or out without us knowing about it.
They weren’t twiddlin when they said, “Knowledge is Power".