tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133409.post114170898707244606..comments2023-04-01T18:36:52.359-04:00Comments on The House of Boogie: Religious Fanaticism: Where To BeginBoogiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11636861960548704495noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133409.post-1142341979067014472006-03-14T08:12:00.000-05:002006-03-14T08:12:00.000-05:00Buffy, et al:What worries me is that more and more...Buffy, et al:<BR/><BR/>What worries me is that more and more people are moving to one extreme or another, as Paul indicated above; there's nothing wrong with having an opinion, but I personally try to see things in not such black and white but in more grey shades. Is it okay for people to be against the war in Iraq? Sure. Is it okay for people to be anti-homosexual? I guess, if that's how their beliefs guide them. Is it okay, however, for people to take those beliefs and foist them onto others? No. I respect people who are anti-abortion if they feel, personally, that abortion is something which contravenes their personal beliefs. It's when they start killing doctors and harassing women that I rescind my respect and think about having them locked up along with the "Free Teri Schiavo" people.<BR/><BR/>It seems, more and more, that extremists, nutcases and whack-jobs are more and more visible. And that doesn't even begin to account for the government or the President ;)Boogiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636861960548704495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133409.post-1142072733046390332006-03-11T05:25:00.000-05:002006-03-11T05:25:00.000-05:00The Phelps family, I think, frighten me more. The...The Phelps family, I think, frighten me more. There are so many of them....... Guess they got the crazy gene.Buffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01529901414066479088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133409.post-1141774701679554642006-03-07T18:38:00.000-05:002006-03-07T18:38:00.000-05:00I think part of the reason why these two stories s...I think part of the reason why these two stories struck me as so bizarre is that neither the Phelps clan nor Taheri-azar made any sense with their actions. Ridiculing the memory of a fallen soldier -- and virtually tearing the heart out of anyone who cares about him/her at his/her funeral -- is not only cruel and insensitive, it makes no sense. If your fight is with the people who permit homosexuality in the military and/or the nation, take the fight to Washington, not to a family who's lost a son, brother, daughter or sister -- or father or mother -- to war.<BR/><BR/>As for Taheri-azar, he not only pissed away years of education, he wound up not killing anyone and not making any real point other than Muslim zealots will do some incredibly stupid things in the name of God. What I think these people don't realize is if they stopped blowing up schoolbuses and places of worship and ceased using violence to interact with the rest of the world, they'd get farther and gain the respect of the world community. Instead, as Taheri-azar demonstrated, they're pushing the envelope and forcing us to question their sanity.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and Kaia, for the record, I'd prefer to see him feel the steel toe of a Doc Marten -- as wielded by someone equally judgemental and intolerant -- in a jail in the South prior to his return to Iran or wherever he calls home.Boogiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636861960548704495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133409.post-1141773297569679082006-03-07T18:14:00.000-05:002006-03-07T18:14:00.000-05:00I don't think i could be held responsible for my a...I don't think i could be held responsible for my actions if i saw those inbred baby-making gene pool rejects protesting at the funeral of someone i loved and lost. And i think god would be okay with it. <BR/><BR/>Someone needs to kick that smarmy smile off that iranian's face - preferably with a steel-toed doc marten. Several times over. We should ship him back to iran - so disgusted by our culture - our lifestyle - go back to iran and see how happy you are after a few years in the desert.Kaiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191332632083648311noreply@blogger.com