From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 16:41:07 MDT
>Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 17:50:47 -0400
>From: Christopher Whipple <crw@well.com>
>Subject: Re: Tangent: Koran Quotes
>My point remains.
>If death doesn't save non-believers from the Hell-fire, and they're
>going to die anyway, what's the use in killing them?
>On reflection, I suppose that's best kept a rhetorical question as it
>can be answered in any number of odd ways - we kill the infidels to
>cleanse the earth, we kill the infidels to raise our standing before
>allah, we kill the infidels because it gives us joy-joy feelings.
>In deference to Samantha's post; I believe FutureQ's original point
>also remains - and I'm paraphrasing here - on the whole, religion
>causes more problems than it solves and it's not limited to the faith
>of Islam. I believe there *is* a place for religion in the world; I
>just wish its prominence weren't so, well, prominent - I guess. :)
Er, what makes you think they're interested in saving the
non-believers? The reason they want them dead is so that they'll burn
eternally. They don't want them saved, they want them suffering. Killing
them gets that happening sooner.
Regards,
James....
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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