WEATHER53
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Shame based scolding works only from ill bred parents to childrenLol, what's embarrassing is your attempt to talk yourself and your argument up. You're hellbent on labeling billions of people because you can't see past your biases and emotions.Sigh. Sarcasm is not a valid argument. Are you so obtuse that you can't see some of the same behavior and tactics being used by the Jihadists as the Conquistadors?Guns don't have an ideology of killing or enslaving non-believers.
That's beside the point. If you don't want law abiding gun owners painted with a broad brush, don't paint every last member of a particular faith as those who have "an ideology of killing or enslaving nonbelievers." I mean, look at the Conquistadors. They essentially tried the same thing acting under the Spanish Requirement of 1513 with the Aztecs. The Aztecs basically had two choices. Convert or die. But you don't see anyone painting Christians as merciless conquerors and slavers, do you?
"If you do so, you will do well, and that which you are obliged to do to their Highnesses, and we in their name shall receive you in all love and charity, and shall leave you, your wives, and your children, and your lands, free without servitude, that you may do with them and with yourselves freely that which you like and think best, and they shall not compel you to turn Christians, unless you yourselves, when informed of the truth, should wish to be converted to our Holy Catholic Faith, as almost all the inhabitants of the rest of the islands have done. And, besides this, their Highnesses award you many privileges and exemptions and will grant you many benefits.
But, if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him; and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their Highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us. And that we have said this to you and made this Requisition, we request the notary here present to give us his testimony in writing, and we ask the rest who are present that they should be witnesses of this Requisition."
-Spanish Requirement of 1513, (Requerimiento)
Sound familiar? It should. Because that's what these Radical Islamists are doing. But Christianity moved past forcibly subjugating people of other faiths and cultures, and given time Islam will too. This broad brushing people on this thread are engaging in is intellectually and morally bankrupt.
The Conquistadors bombed Manchester? Whoda thunkit??
Greg
I can't alleviate your ignorance of history so I won't even try. Good night.
You're spanking AROUND the problem. It is not deeply rooted in History and more than a car accident was caused by the invention of the petrol engine. It is about Syria, Assad, and extremists filling the vacuum. THAT is the immediate cause. Oh; and a Useful Idiot to a shit cause.
Thank you for not bothering; it would have been embarrassing for you.
Greg
I've embarrassed a number of your friends on this thread already. I'm primed and ready to add you to that list.
It does not work on conservative adults
Middle eadt is a mess because they want it that way, squabbling about 1967 borders back to BC and everything in between
Strife is their identity and there is no real wish to give it up