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Re: Sam Harris and Reza Aslan....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, June 18 2015, 15:39:31 (UTC)
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....also, Reza says there is no use talking to Osama Bin Laden because, well, he is beyond rational or reasoned debate...you just have to get rid of him.

That's not so....Bin Laden made it very clear that he wanted the United States military out of his country....THAT was his complaint. That he invoked his god does not not mean his god was the reason for his displeasure. Sure, he atributed to his god the reason he wanted the "infidel" gone...but I suspect he would have felt the same about the United States if its people were Buddhist or, if Osama believed in Jesus...or Buddha.

The point to all of this has not been religious at all...which god is arbitrary...focusing on Osama's god, or our own, is a dodge, it is a blind...it is an attempt to disguise what is really taking place: The United States is an empire...with military stationed in over 160 countries...THAT is what Osama was objecting to. He used "god" the same we do when we say "under god"...when WE murder.

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Sam Harris and Reza Aslan.... pancho - Thursday, June 18 2015, 15:29:38 (UTC)
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