Thursday, August 5, 2010

RELIGION OR CRIME

RELIGION OR CRIME: If the Mafia sent out circulars inviting people to come to a series of seminars to learn how to be wise guys and to get ahead by killing or enslaving neighbors, and actually conducted training and mind-conditioning meant to extract promises that the participants would so engage, then would our laws or Constitution preclude closing down all such seminar sites as are shown to foment such conspiracies? Would the result be different, were the Made Men, Captains, and Bosses to suddenly announce that God had instructed them in a vision that He had chosen them to wage such violence as jihad? When our Constitution talks about freedom of religion, did the founders intend to tie the government's hands from protecting the citizenry of free men and women from being terrorized by conspiratorial, violence-mad cults? IOW, when a local facility calls itself a religion, church, or mosque and yet shows itself to be prone to incitement of conspiratorial, violence-mad cultism, then is there some magical, talisman-like effect to the word "religion?" IOW, is a facility where incitement to violence-mad cultism is preached a church or religion, just because the locals label it as such? IOW, is there any objective, reasoned, LIMITING meaning to "religion?"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Were we seeing only a trickling out of well intentioned legislation, however poorly thought out, one may think the originators were decent people, just misguided, but still seeking after our best interests. But what of when the trickle becomes an army of fire hoses? And much of the legislation appears to have been pre-crafted, sort of like storing up munitions before declaring war? And the paybacks to self interested, amoral hogs becomes undeniable? At what point do we figure out that the power hierarchy means to utterly rule and milk us, and, apart from pretense, that it cares not a whit about us? Indeed, if the power hierarchy cares about people generally, rather than about stirring and milking discord, then ask: are not white anglo saxon male protestants people also? So, why is it that only they tend to be branded as racists? If the regime cares about the freedom and dignity of Americans generally, then why does it do all it can to reward blue staters and to disrespect the border? Nay, the regime is not simply misguided. It is propelled by ruthlessly cynical avarice and animosity. And it will not stop until it is made to see that it has no other choice.

Anonymous said...

From A.T. -- @PJPony, re: "... the same religion based loosely on Islam and earth worship"
I concur that Islam could easily be used as proxy for a new Frenchified version of authoritative terror, i.e., the Cult of the Supreme Being, replete with state collectivizing, imposing rituals to so fill and occupy all minds of the masses as to leave no time for idle reflection, questioning, or trouble making. Such a mix with Islam could dress the Cult of the Supreme Being with what it never had: a tradition of sacred stories and sacraments. Potential thug rulers salivate all over themselves by anticipating how to control the masses by throwing religious opium their way. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Supreme_Being.