On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 17:59:29 -0800, "Capt. JG"
wrote:

"Larry" wrote in message
.. .
Bruce In Bangkok wrote in
:

As far as the "cause of peace" it is somewhat difficult to have a
peace with folks who hate you, who's religion (and don't think that
the Palestinians aren't true believers) teaches them that outsiders,
infidels, have no rights and should be eradicated if they don't
convert.



It's not just Islam, it's ALL OF THEM! Every relgion on the planet has a
long history of genocide, proving beyond any shadow of a doubt there is no
"god" and certainly no "saviour" who's gonna swoop down and save...er,
ah....which group of religious murderers??

This superstitious phenomenon of the upper life forms may be the reason
life cycles through a few million years then suddenly commits suicide for
no apparent reason. There may a limit to how much "intelligence" life can
withstand before that "intelligence" becomes its own death sentence,
committing itself to self-destruction through the very death machines that
big brain has superstitiously invented to terminate its species.

5,500+ humans die each day over religion. How utterly stupid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkGpO1lQrLY



While not perfect, Buddhism does a decent job at restraint...

"As the Buddha states in the Brahma Net Sutra: "If a child of Buddha himself
kills, or goads someone else to kill, or provides with or suggests means for
killing, or praises the act of killing or, on seeing someone commit the act,
expresses approval for what that person has done, or kills by way of
incantations, or is the cause, occasion, means, or instrument of the act of
inducing a death, he will be shut out of the community."


True that the Buddha taught that life is pain and one must look inward
for the answers but some of his adherents seem to interpret the
teachings to mean one should fight against evil doers in the secular
world. Witness the Monks in Vietnam and Siri Lanka who are/were
extremely active politically as well as the Monks in Burma who
recently protested the military government's actions.

Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)