Hi Amy, thanks for all your posts and the tough stand you take on the narrow-minded. I learn a lot from your blog, take it as read I am a fan!

Thanks so much!

That's what somebody is offended by? Jesus, get a life.

"Stop making fun of my Savior?" What do you say to that?

(For the first time ever, I though Dilbert was sorta funny.)

What do you say to that? What Scott said:

"Thank you for taking time out from feeding the poor to complain about comic strips. I know Jesus would have played it the same way."

HAH!! Rad, thanks for that, I now have to clean the coffee off my monitor! O_O

I remember reading about all those death threats to Danish papers, when the papers published opinions that Islam was not a religion of peace.

*rolling eyes* Clarity of thought was clearly NOT one of the things emphasized in the mosques.

Its hard to rectify my deep regard for free speech, with my concern that it is being taken advantage of by people who only want to undermine it.

I'll give Europe credit for the degree to which it is tolerant, but I can't help but wonder if they're tolerating their own internal destruction by allowing a fifth column in their midst, and ensuring that the freedoms they value are eventually worn away.

Perhaps the solution is increasingly severe immigration laws, combined with laws regarding assimilation. *shrug* I don't know, but I remember very clearly the phrase, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

Its hard to rectify my deep regard for free speech, with my concern that it is being taken advantage of by people who only want to undermine it.

And therein lies the rub. Also, that's not the only thing they're trying to undermine, try "our way of life" that's offensive to them.

I'll give Europe credit for the degree to which it is tolerant, but I can't help but wonder if they're tolerating their own internal destruction by allowing a fifth column in their midst, and ensuring that the freedoms they value are eventually worn away.

Too much tolerance will be their downfall, as we're starting to see, especially in the UK. Removing the history of the Holocaust from the schools' ciriculum because it "offends" Muslims students and their parents is a travesty. It did happen, President Eisenhower made sure it was documented, and that's that, end of story. To pander and succumb to these jackals is to secure our own demise.

The obvious lesson to take from this is that violence solves a lot of problems.

Indeed, well the irony here is that Islamic militant movements may very well shoot themselves in the foot with their successes.

Europeans LIKE speaking their minds, they LIKE being able to just wander down to the red light district and watch a woman dance naked.

They LIKE to drink whiskey, beer, & wine.

and they do NOT like to be blown up.

Islam is tolerated in Europe because lets face it, most of its adherents are immigrants, who form communities within communities, and so the public at large is unaware of Islam's violent streak. Moderate Muslims going on t.v. and talking about peace make it easy to believe that its just a few lone nuts.

But with success comes boldness, and as knowledge of the nature of the Islamic faith comes to light, it may wind up getting treated the same way as Scientology in Germany. (Banned)

The thing is, I'd love to believe that someone's up in the sky watching over us, making sure our individual lives are wonderful, taking a personal interest in each and every one of us.

It's just all these dead or diseased or tortured or abandoned or homeless or violent or crazy or substance-addicted pieces of counter-evidence walking around that make me doubt.

Otherwise I'd be forking over my 10% every week like the rest of the gaggle. Flock. Whatever.