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But all 5 links had the same info.
Since I’ve never done that (complain about a perceived lack of links to a story), I don’t see on what basis you could say that.although my guess is there is if you were provided only one link, you’d complain there wasn’t more links, either that or you would say it was a right wing or discount the publication…so several were provided …
About your other point (discounting a source because it was ‘right wing’ or biased against me), I think I’ve only done that once. I decided after that to refrain from that tactic because IMO it’s counterproductive to effective argument. When you can’t refute the argument, trash the source. This is something I have first hand knowledge of, as war supporters constantly do it to me.
It is a very sad day when extremists of any religion threaten the Vatican. I have heard of the Temple Institute of Jerusalem also demanding that the Vatican turn over the Ark of the Covenant and these are extremists on the Jewish side. As for having another Crusade…can you say the word INSANITY??? I knew you could…Seems to me that a person who even mentions the crusades would do a very good job in watching his own tongue unless he has done any study of the crusades. HELLO? Ever heard of SALADIN? Must God once again prove that if Christians (or Jews for that matter) ever again think it is possible to commit genocide against the arab and muslim people that they themselves will be once again drawn into a neverending and bloody war of atrition that YOU WILL NOT EVER WIN. I hear the abhorrent and extremely racist views of many fundamentalist and evangelicals who know very VERY little about muslims, the VARIETY of muslims (sorry guy there is good and bad in ALL religions) and I mourn this. My God, our soldiers have better sense than most of our citizens who on a regular basis just mindlessly spew vitriol against conflicts and people they know so little about. What we need are more Saint Francis’es and much less ‘kill ‘em all before they kill us’ crusaders, thank you very much. There was a legitimate reason in many ways I believe for the Crusades of their time. It was to teach Catholic Christians, Jewish people, and Muslim people that God WILL work with men and women of all faiths in the common hope that we can have peace, worship as our conscience would lead us, and not persecute each other. Our Muslim brothers and sisters (sorry if I offend anyone for following the teaching of the Church when it comes to the Human Family as a Whole) do have many things to work out and we must pray for them to learn to be more tolerant of those who want peace with them but to investigate and prosecute people and organizations that would do harm to anyone whether domestic or foreign, just as our own country does. In other words, they have their Wacos and we have ours.’ However laypeople in our Church NEED to understand that you will always have those who are more interested in peacemaking than warmongering. Can anyone here provide the info about this threat that Zarqawi has made? Just as Khalid Sheik Mohammed was a rather ‘big catch,’ that I thank God we did, the same for this sad Muslim who choses to give himself over to what peaceful Muslims would probably call ‘Iblis’ (Muslim word for the devil; and when they call us ‘great satan,’ it means ‘fiery destruction’) and I am sorry to inform you of this but this nation I struggle with being proud of has committed some extremely atrocious crimes against Muslim soldiers, even those who have surrendered in both of what I call the Bloody Bush Wars. Mustard gas…did you know that the grandfather of our current president was not only Hitler’s banker but probably made sure that these reprehensibly destructive weapons were salvaged and preserved from WWII? How do you know Saddam was not intimidated into using them against the kurds just so our good 'ol boys in the Pentagon could see how that stuff works? This nation (just as Ted Flynn’s book Hope of the Wicked reveals) has contributed an incredible amount to these conflicts that have caused an incomprehensible amount of suffering just for the sake of monetary gain. I once talked to a radio board operator who said that war is good for the economy. What if you wake up one morning just like 9-11 and hear that we no longer have an economy?
