Infallably Predictable
Posted September 18th, 2006 by Chip Bok
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The pope gave an academic lecture on faith and reason. He said that God cannot act against reason. He wants science to broaden its definition of reason to include faith. His complaint was that Europe has abandoned faith.
You can read the actual text here. The pope quotes John's Gospel finding God in logos. The Greek word logos means both reason and word. He says," John thus spoke the final word on the biblical concept of God."
Christopher Hitchens calls this a premeditated insult to Muslims because they claim Muhammad gets the last word on God. Hitchens, a non-believer, finds both claims absurd:
"…and where Muslims believe that Mohammed went into a trance and took
dictation from an archangel, Ratzinger (Hitchens insists on using his pre-pope name) accepts as true the equally
preposterous legend that St. Paul was commanded to evangelize for
Christ during the course of a vision experienced in a dream."
Hitchens thinks Benedict gave Islamic radicals more fuel for jihad. Though he slams the church for doing the same throughout history, Hitchens probably would agree with the pope's point that spreading faith by violence is unreasonable.
Radical Muslims took issue with this point and commenced to burning churches.
The Pope apologized for his reasonableness. He was not forced to convert. Yet.
Good thing they didn't see any Muhammad doodles.
September 19th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
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September 19th, 2006 at 11:14 pm
When WWIII Started****1979
This is a bit long, but very informative. You have to read the catalogue
of events in this piece and then ask yourself how anyone can take the
position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit
back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us
again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979… that
alarm has been ringing for years.
US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station,
Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is
an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this
action is so necessary.
AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP!
That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (when more than
3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it was, but I think it should
have been "Get Out of Bed!" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been
buzzing since 1979, and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll
over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then.
It was a cool fall day in November, 1979, in a country going through a
religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked
and seized the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright
attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most
powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this
sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25
years.
America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and
had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then, President Carter, had
to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The
ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's
inability to deal with terrorism.
America's military had been decimated and downsized since the
end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly
organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was
doomed from the start.
Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and
killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her
citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued!
In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven
into the US Embassy compound in Beirut. When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The
alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.
Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down
with over 2,500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine
Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America
mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is
driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continues her slumber.
The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate
of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a
restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.
Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the
main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main; 22 are killed and the
snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually
attacked.
Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, is hijacked
and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the
passenger list and executed.
The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when
they bomb TWA Flight 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic
bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 259.
Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying
to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.
The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.
The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two
CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley,
Virginia.
The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested
after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking
garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed
and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The
Snooze alarm is depressed again.
Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.
A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35
yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys
the Khobar Towers, a US Air Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over
500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America
does not respond decisively.
They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. These attacks were planned with precision.
They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back
to sleep.
The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12
October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded
killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but
we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
And, of course, you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans
think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they
are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979, and we chose to hit the
snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep!!!
In the news lately we have seen lots of finger pointing from every high
official in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But
if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see
exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the
National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since
1979.
I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue
until we as a people decide enough is enough! America needs to "Get out of
Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever. We have to
be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life
continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and
again and roll over and go back to sleep.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "… it seems all
we have done is awakened a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to
disseminate to terrorists around the world.
This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year this is
an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our
children in years to come.
Remember, Freedom is not free. There was a price to obtain it and a bigger
price to maintain it. The enemy will not negotiate. The enemy is bent on
killing every American they can - all of us if possible. The enemy is
seeking world domination. The enemy will behead you, your children and
your neighbors. You cannot negotiate or ignore a rabid dog; you have to put it
down.
If you understand and believe we are at a crucial point in our history
please forward this to as many people as you can– especially to the young
people and all those who dozed off in history class and who seem so quick
to protest such a necessary military action. If you don't believe it, just
delete it and go back to sleep and learn to pray in Arabic
September 20th, 2006 at 3:01 am
Slope is fighting terrorism here, so he doesn't have to fight them there.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:56 am
Seeing as though 300 Americans are killed each week by drunk drivers hurtling their rolling gas bombs indiscriminately into innocent people, does that mean we should learn to slur our speech when we pray ?
September 21st, 2006 at 4:09 pm
yeah, gosh, i love the freedom we have like not to have the government spy on us via phones or e-mail, the freedom to exercise our RIGHT to vote with out a poll tax like voter ID…man, thank god ( or george) for all of our freedoms!
oh, and i see they are trying to refuse haebus corpus to detainees of the government. sweet freedom!!!
September 30th, 2006 at 10:27 am
menkcen..Ramadan started several days ago..get it rite at least
September 30th, 2006 at 10:30 am
slope….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..sleepy..ssleepy…sleepy…great messages..shorten it a bit tho..wouldnt hurt