I think this is part of the "war on boys" that is plaguing the western schools...

But AMY... MOOZLIMS!!

Moozlims like never beeforrrrrre!

If this headmaster owned a pet, he would be charged with animal cruelty.

These people will be tamed. The ones who are here and integrated into the circus already have been.

As with Raddy: What else did you have in mind? How else was this ever going to go?

Crid [CridComment at gmail] at April 5, 2012 1:00 PM

Crid,
I know that the majority of Muslims in the world just want their day to go well but like Israel I don't want to live w/a few that feel it's necessary to cut my daughter's throat during the night.

How will this go down? Authorities do not want to be challenged by our own Federal government for profiling anyone so I'm not sure. W/o "snitches" or "spies" it's hard to get ahead of simple wrong doing or evil.

Israel has no choice. Neither do you. Neither should anyone be forgiven for the bearing of bogusly illuminated, shallow, condescending, screeching fear-bot.

Um, "infidels" and Muslims who are "not Muslim enough" around the world are being slaughtered with regularity by people following the dictates of Islam. People in Paris who went to a music hall and a cafe and people in Orlando who went to a nightclub. The notion that fear of what Islam commands is silly is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. And distorting the very reasonable worry about Islam into some "Moozlims" comment doesn't change that. Individuals who are violent are just following the religion's commands. The religion which is not really a religion at all but a violent totalitarian system that commands the overthrow of all non-Muslim states, the slaughter or conversion of those in them (oh, and go ahead and rape any infidel women when you're in "battle") and throw gays off tall buildings and slaughter apostates and women guilty of "adultery"...well, if you don't have a problem with all of that, what's wrong with you?

The safer the world around us gets, the more each incident stands out.

When very few children are injured on the playground, each injury stands out.

When very few children are getting kidnapped, the kidnapping of one is major news. So, you strive to protect your child from being the one.

If the playground is not segregated for different age groups robust playing knocks little ones around.

Additionally, the number of kids using the facilities can get quite large so ...

I'm starting to think we should just issue parents a truckload of bubble wrap the day the kid is born and get it over with.

> well, if you don't have a problem
> with all of that, what's wrong
> with you?

I can handle more than one wrong thing at a time. Your mundane & self-aggrandizing chatter is one thing that's wrong 'with' me as well. So,

☛ ISLAM ☚

You wouldn't do reality testing for the Christian churches in your neighborhood, either.

The headmaster's name (Dr Tim Cook) is surely misspelled. Should be Dr Kook.

How do you suppose any kid is being taught history, with all the nasty guns and spears, catapults, arrow, mines, bombs, flamethrowers...

Little Johnny Tenderhearted will really be hurt by the beach scene in Saving Private Ryan. Let him run? Heaven forfend. Better to teach him to stand there and cry until his miserable life is cut off by somebody raised to look out for herself.

Crid: "You wouldn't do reality testing for the Christian churches in your neighborhood, either."

Do I really need to Crid?

The "message" in Christian churches is love, forgiveness (give and receive), and charity to all. The funding for Evangelical churches are typical local funds from individuals and other churches. (My church is debt-free due to many individual gifts and donations from other churches. We are not that unusual.)

How many mosques are Saudia funded/controlled versus funded by the local Muslim community? What message does the host country fund? What local charity work does the mosque do?

But in reality Crid, a message that includes "You can lie to them; You can kill them; You can enslave them; You can spare them if they pay;" leaves me lacking in curiosity or in tolerance.

It inspires caution instead of "you have no choice". Where do you get that?

History has shown people have choices as well as killing fields or gas chambers. Our "answers" have not been correct or productive that's for sure. But there are answers.

> The "message" in Christian churches...

Suspiciously glib quotation marks tingle me right in the Spidey-sense— You are about to make a rhetorical mistake.

> is love, forgiveness (give and
> receive), and charity to all.

Sezyoo. Any, ANY survey of the faith beyond your own whitebread neighborhood in your own whitebread weekend will reveal patterns (and pillars!) of smiting and condemnation: It was the New Testament which brought damnation to the afterlife. I myself was named for a minister in the Methodist church... My grandfather. While Hellfire was (by then?) not a big theme in our rockin' 60's sanctuaries, the demands and injunctions of a tremendously judgmental Father undergirded the whole shebang.

This is a point which people in these blog discussions —such as yourself— have been articulating, as if on my behalf, for well over a decade... Without actually taking it.

I find that to be rillyweerd.

People who think Christianity grew soft and fluffy by choice haven't done the reading.

> Our "answers"....

Dood, stop.

Consider this.

I've considered it. It just shows a significant ignorance of Christianity.

"Angels, we may surmise, are beings of such power that when they announce themselves to humans the mind instinctively reels in terror."

No. Angles are fucking weird. The vast majority look like normal humans. And then there are the 'alien' ones with six wings and a dozen eyes or the ball of fire ones or the tentacle monster ones. So yeah, if a talking ball of fire starts lecturing you in your bedroom late at night most people are still going to freak out.

"I was thinking about this just now... these TV shows about angels, where a kindly Michael Landon or Della Reese helps families and small businessmen with their problems ..."

Now you'r going to sappy pop culture for christian theology? And making some argument that all Christians are Manicheans? Only a few subgroups were ever Manichean. So the rest of this is gibberish.

"How do you suppose any kid is being taught history, with all the nasty guns and spears, catapults, arrow, mines, bombs, flamethrowers..."

Not a problem. The world was peaceful and happy and every square inch of it was Southern California coast, and there were porkchop bushes and fritter trees for everyone. Until those evil white males came along, hatin' on Gaia. That's all you need to know.

> No. Angles are fucking weird.

Did you go to college?

Have you actually read any of the bible? Or any of the old testament era writings on angels Crid? Dudes with wings and a floaty shiny hat are not there. Tentacle monsters and madness were the messengers of god.

Same deal with the gates of heaven. They are called the pearly gates. The english translation is roughly 'The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate being made from a single pearl.' What part of gold grill gates look like an effin pearl? But the pop culture depiction of 'The Pearly Gates' is a gold fence on a cloud.

But hey, Crid apparently gets his religion from 'Touched by an Angel'. Just make sure it isn't a bad touch.

No college, then... Okay.

You covered angels in college Crid? What clown college did you go to?

You've taken part in so many discussions... But you never seem to have taken a point that anyone's made, or offered as a response a 'principle' that you didn't think up on the spot. You're not good at exchanges with others. I think you're resentful at them for having learned how to do the reading, and you want to win arguments without knowing or learning anything.

Interesting. I give you an A for effort Crid. Unfortunately that is all you have. You haven't made a coherent argument or position. Instead you insult and redirect. You are such a skilled writer it is sad that is covers such a shallow base of knowledge.