Posted in Europe, History, Islam, Religion on Mar 17th, 2008
Magda raised a good point, as she does with rather disconcerting regularity.
The Roman Catholic Church HAS had a violent history. In fact, I suspect that its history has been even MORE violent than Islam’s history. However, I don’t believe that this actually points to the error of fundamentalism.
I just think that it points to the error [...]
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Posted in Christianity, Europe, Islam, Religion on Feb 22nd, 2008
There’s something in all of us that needs God.
Even Richard Dawkins says so, but in a completely different way.
The point is that we have a built-in need to believe in a power greater than ourselves. And, if you take that higher power out of someone’s life, they will go searching for another one.
That’s what’s happening [...]
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Posted in Democracy, Europe, History, Islam, Society on Feb 21st, 2008
The thing about being a wild-eyed fanatic is that you cannot shut up for long. It’s a problem. I just cannot shut up about Israel, Global Security, Foreign Policy, and anything else even remotely related to such things. Oh, I have other interests too, and I can’t seem to shut up about those either, but [...]
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Posted in America, Europe, History, Hitler, Iran on Sep 21st, 2007
I saw the movie Pi this week. It is an incredibly moving, and disturbing, movie. It was filmed in black and white – in grainy, high contrast. They used obsolete PCs, and they glued old circuit boards together and called it a mainframe. It was seriously low budget. It was about good and evil, obsession and [...]
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Now, let me get something straight here. I’m a little confused.
The Sarkozy government wants the rest of Europe to SCALE BACK on its involvement with Iran?
I hope that you don’t mind my incredulity, but isn’t that a bit tepid?
I’ve been racking my brain to find a suitable metaphor, and I think that I’ve hit on [...]
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