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What offends you the most?
| View Poll Results: Which of these things really offend you when done in public? | |||
| Straight Sex/PDA |     | 5 | 17.86% |
| Homosexual Sex/PDA |    | 7 | 25.00% |
| Racism |    | 18 | 64.29% |
| Religion: God/Allah/Buddha etc. |    | 15 | 53.57% |
| Atheism |    | 5 | 17.86% |
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 28. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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Originally Posted by sneekula 
Violence committed in the name of a religion. I have pretty well had it with this islamic crap.
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Originally Posted by Infarction
Not that the Muslims are the only one's who've ever done that...
"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." --Ayn Rand
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Lets not turn this thread into a flame war on religions. I think this is an interesting thread so don't spoil it by going in that direction.
Don't PM me with questions -- you might get a nasty PM in response. If you have a question then post it in one of the forums.
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Originally Posted by Dave Sinkula
Any recent (past hundred years or so) incidents you've got in mind?
Oklahoma City Federal Building - you can tiptoe around the groups and what they call themselves but Christian beliefs are 'fundamental' to their existence.
There, do you think that was enough gasoline? I could mention Waco, Idaho, and Montana but those would only be tossing candles in with the gas.
Imagine a world without hypotheticals....
You can have my book when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
You can have my book when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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Originally Posted by GrimJack
How soon we forget!
Oklahoma City Federal Building - you can tiptoe around the groups and what they call themselves but Christian beliefs are 'fundamental' to their existence.
There, do you think that was enough gasoline? I could mention Waco, Idaho, and Montana but those would only be tossing candles in with the gas.
"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." --Ayn Rand
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Originally Posted by Dave Sinkula
Any recent (past hundred years or so) incidents you've got in mind?
Keeping the discussion on a religious note though, I do appreciate the OP putting atheism as an option. There are some atheists who are worse about forcing their beliefs on people than most evangelists of whatever religion... they're like GNU zealots or something, just with a different goal...
Last edited by Infarction; Dec 24th, 2007 at 4:07 am.
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon
Lets not turn this thread into a flame war on religions. I think this is an interesting thread so don't spoil it by going in that direction.
We need to distinguish between legitimate religions and their extremist often murderous abusers. They are only a few, and unfortunately all religions have them.
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I rank racism as probably the worst of the offenses but that may only be because it is often the most obvious, though it is now becoming closely wrapped in religious intolerance.
Here in Seattle a Sikh was attacked as a Muslim - this has to be a combination of 3 offenses, racism, religious intolerance, and stupidity. Sometimes, I think quietly to myself "if only ignorance were painful".
<but that would almost qualify as masochism>
Here in Seattle a Sikh was attacked as a Muslim - this has to be a combination of 3 offenses, racism, religious intolerance, and stupidity. Sometimes, I think quietly to myself "if only ignorance were painful".
<but that would almost qualify as masochism>
Imagine a world without hypotheticals....
You can have my book when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
You can have my book when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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Originally Posted by Ancient Dragon
Lets not turn this thread into a flame war on religions. I think this is an interesting thread so don't spoil it by going in that direction.
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I have to agree with almost all of you... but one thing you missed was how offensive overly-intelectual people are... being smart is one thing... but the ones that think they need to try to belittle someone else because of a higher level of learning in a certain subject are the true offenders of this world... if we just realize that everyone has the ability to contribute something differently, then we can begin to understand that there truly is no "better person" only the ones that chose to be worse.
I'm a mech not a tech, don't get too advanced for my skills please... lol
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