thank goodness timothy mcveigh turned out not to be a jew!

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not that there was TOO much doubt with that last name, but my, can you imagine the uproar if he had been jewish?

and then, what if some nice jews decided to build a temple a couple blocks from the murrah building in oklahoma city. can you imagine the right-wing getting all tied up in knots about how THE JEWS were celebrating and dancing on the graves of THEIR victims on hallowed ground at oklahoma city?


fortunately, he turned out to be a christian, so his religion was completely irrelevant. any other religion and it would have been the entire reason why he did what he did, but no, he was christian, so that couldn't possibly be it. must have been political. but then, we'd blame all right-wingers, and we can't have that. so he must have been just some lone nut. nothing to see here, move along.


then those crazy muslins had to go and have an election among their ENTIRE BILLION PLUS POPULATION ACROSS THE GLOBE and unanimously agree to send some suicide hijackers to destroy the twin towers and put a hole in the pentagon. each and every one of them muslins is complicit, so that whole ground zero mosque thingy is really offensive. now, had they been christian, then religion would have been irrelevant. but no, they were muslins, so there you go.

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1. Within the groups of people that call themselves Christians.

There are many that learn and think on better sources, some worse. And although nobody is perfect, and everyone does both at some times, just having a certain belief does not mean you are always in that better spirit.

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2. that's the thing about religion.

you can truly take the good messages to heart and live a good life accordingly.

or you can use it to conceal a dark heart. conceal it from others, perhaps even from yourself.

one thing is for certain, when politicians and public figures talk about religion, watch out!



interestingly, we were never able to interview those 19 hijackers about their religious beliefs. i wonder why we're so convinced that religion was so tremendously important to them?

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5. Programming. That would be best guess.

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3. The only problem with this analogy...

Is that the 9/11 hijackers had religion very much in mind when they were committing their suicide acts for Allah. Listen to the cockpit tapes and what were they all chanting? "Allahu ackbar!" over and over again.

I don't think Tim McVeigh was thinking much about God when he parked that Ryder truck in front of the Murrah Building. But I could be wrong.

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4. yeah, and i bet the jews on the planes were shouting "jesus f------ christ!"

so i'm not inclined to read too much into that.

in any event, of course, the point is that whatever they believed, they were not remotely representing their religion on that day. they certainly weren't representin AMERICAN islam on that day, by killing, among others, a bunch of AMERICAN musims.

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6. That is so wrong.