Comments on: Let Freedom Rip http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/ America's favorite blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:07:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Utah Mesothelioma Lawyer http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15446 Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:45:22 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15446 Hello! I'm Fanny Pickens, from Seattle, Washington. Your blog is organized, informationrmative, and it contained lots of the information I needed for my college research paper. Thanks so much. Hello! I’m Fanny Pickens, from Seattle, Washington. Your blog is organized, informationrmative, and it contained lots of the information I needed for my college research paper. Thanks so much.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15152 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:37:39 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15152 But you are wishful thinking again, Stephen... But you are wishful thinking again, Stephen…

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15118 Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:43:16 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15118 Stephen, You're on a wavelength that makes eminent good sense. Heathen-leaning though I be, you and Leslie are definitely my kind of Christians. Stephen,

You’re on a wavelength that makes eminent good sense. Heathen-leaning though I be, you and Leslie are definitely my kind of Christians.

]]> by: mastmaker http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15106 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:31:44 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15106 I just did a quick search for 'waterfowler'. Nada! Wonder why he didn't comment on this one. May be he read the label on the pack: 'Smoking Irony is injurious to health!' I just did a quick search for ‘waterfowler’. Nada! Wonder why he didn’t comment on this one. May be he read the label on the pack: ‘Smoking Irony is injurious to health!’

]]> by: Stephen http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15105 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:22:09 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15105 You know this isn’t so different from the Catholic or Jewish idea that if you change your religion you are dead to the family you came from. Granted that Islam has apparently taken it to the next level. It makes me curious; will this finally wake up Bush and his cronies in the religious right that, as far as the world is concerned, Christianity is small potatoes? How can they continue to claim that God wants them to save the world when 2/3 doesn’t even acknowledge the same God? OK, so I am a Christian and I think the way I see the world is right, that doesn’t give me the right to try and make other people see the world the way I do. They think they are right too. I wouldn’t want the majority religion in the world trying to tell me what to believe. Heck, I don’t even want the majority Christian religions telling me how to live my part of it. People who try to make everyone else believe as they do must not be very secure in their beliefs. Am I wishful thinking again? You know this isn’t so different from the Catholic or Jewish idea that if you change your religion you are dead to the family you came from. Granted that Islam has apparently taken it to the next level. It makes me curious; will this finally wake up Bush and his cronies in the religious right that, as far as the world is concerned, Christianity is small potatoes? How can they continue to claim that God wants them to save the world when 2/3 doesn’t even acknowledge the same God? OK, so I am a Christian and I think the way I see the world is right, that doesn’t give me the right to try and make other people see the world the way I do. They think they are right too. I wouldn’t want the majority religion in the world trying to tell me what to believe. Heck, I don’t even want the majority Christian religions telling me how to live my part of it. People who try to make everyone else believe as they do must not be very secure in their beliefs.
Am I wishful thinking again?

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15101 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:19:51 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15101 ...we’re not really in a position to do anything but look at Afghanistan and say, “Boy, we really fucked that one up!” Alternate version: "...we're not really in a position to do anything but look at ourselves and say, "Boy, we really are fucked up!" I'm just sayin'. …we’re not really in a position to do anything but look at Afghanistan and say, “Boy, we really fucked that one up!”

Alternate version:

“…we’re not really in a position to do anything but look at ourselves and say, “Boy, we really are fucked up!”
I’m just sayin’.

]]> by: David http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15100 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:09:31 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15100 Grant, A very enlightening post. Grant,

A very enlightening post.

]]> by: Grant http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15087 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:43:39 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15087 An AP article documents that Afghanistan isn't the only U.S.-allied government where Muslim converts to Christianity are threatened with execution. Saudi Arabia neither permits conversion from Islam nor allows other religions in the kingdom. There are no churches and missionaries are barred. Saudi Arabia considers Sharia the law of the land, which considers conversion to any religion apostasy and the punishment is death. In Kuwait, a court convicted a Shiite Muslim man who publicly proclaimed his conversion to Christianity, but didn't sentence him since the criminal code did not set a punishment. Egypt does not have laws criminalizing apostasy, but those who do convert can still face prosecution. There are exceptions. In strongly secular Turkey, a convert can walk into a Demographic Records office, sign a declaration saying they have converted from Islam to Christianity and leave an hour later with a new identity card reflecting the change. While Islam is the religion of 99 percent of Turkey's 71 million people, it has no official religion. In Israel, the state has laws against missionary activities among Jews, but it does not punish converts. In Tunisia and Algeria, the Islamic authorities take a dim view of conversion but the secular governments do not prohibit it and it does occur. Ironically, IRAQ was the most tolerant country is the region as far as allowing Christians and other faiths to operate according to their beliefs. But unfortunately that has all changed now. An AP article documents that Afghanistan isn’t the only U.S.-allied government where Muslim converts to Christianity are threatened with execution.

Saudi Arabia neither permits conversion from Islam nor allows other religions in the kingdom. There are no churches and missionaries are barred. Saudi Arabia considers Sharia the law of the land, which considers conversion to any religion apostasy and the punishment is death.

In Kuwait, a court convicted a Shiite Muslim man who publicly proclaimed his conversion to Christianity, but didn’t sentence him since the criminal code did not set a punishment.

Egypt does not have laws criminalizing apostasy, but those who do convert can still face prosecution.

There are exceptions. In strongly secular Turkey, a convert can walk into a Demographic Records office, sign a declaration saying they have converted from Islam to Christianity and leave an hour later with a new identity card reflecting the change. While Islam is the religion of 99 percent of Turkey’s 71 million people, it has no official religion.

In Israel, the state has laws against missionary activities among Jews, but it does not punish converts.

In Tunisia and Algeria, the Islamic authorities take a dim view of conversion but the secular governments do not prohibit it and it does occur.

Ironically, IRAQ was the most tolerant country is the region as far as allowing Christians and other faiths to operate according to their beliefs. But unfortunately that has all changed now.

]]> by: Mary http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15078 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:30:41 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15078 Let's face it, you can't teach a (brain) dead dog new tricks. Let’s face it, you can’t teach a (brain) dead dog new tricks.

]]> by: Ann http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15076 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:10:23 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2006/03/24/let-freedom-rip/#comment-15076 Siobhan, in the sentence "The man tripped while walking down the stairs," "the man" is the subject---he does both the tripping and the walking. In "An error occurred while processing...," the error did the occurring, but the error didn't do the processing. The real subject of "processing" is missing. Hey, let's hear some more about the draft lottery! Seriously, we got in bed with the warlords for short-term purposes, just as we got in bed with the Shah, the Taliban, Saddam, et al. This particular lesson doesn't seem to stick. Siobhan, in the sentence “The man tripped while walking down the stairs,” “the man” is the subject—he does both the tripping and the walking. In “An error occurred while processing…,” the error did the occurring, but the error didn’t do the processing. The real subject of “processing” is missing.

Hey, let’s hear some more about the draft lottery!

Seriously, we got in bed with the warlords for short-term purposes, just as we got in bed with the Shah, the Taliban, Saddam, et al. This particular lesson doesn’t seem to stick.

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