You don't think those people could find other things to distort?

It's not religion that's the problem, its the people who misuse it. Believing that God wants you to kill thousands of innocent people is not a Religion, its a Cult.

Exactly.

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I love how the Left tries to tear down Republicans to the levels of terrorists just because they don't agree with their ideals. Quite sad. It turned from religion is tearing down society to Republicans such as Bush are.

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"The problem with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, it's just they know so much that isn't so"
- Ronald Reagan

"A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger, is prepared for a Master and deserves one"
- Alexander Hamilton

Oh cruel fate, to be thusly boned. Ask not for whom the bone bones. It bones for thee.

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I don't condone terrorism on either side, no matter who's God it is supposedly carried out under. That's my point.

Are these tactics that God would bless?


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Bombing Dual-Use Targets:
Legal, Ethical, and Doctrinal Perspectives

Kenneth R. Rizer

With the technological development of precision-guided munitions (PGMs), stealth technology, and satellite-aided navigation, aerial bombardment has become more precise than ever before. A US stealth fighter with a single, laser-guided bomb, for example, can now destroy a target that in WWII required 4500 B-17 sorties dropping 9000 bombs.1 While this increased precision is a welcome development for air campaign planners wishing to apply the military principle of ‘economy of force,’ it has the added benefit of simplifying compliance with legal and ethical requirements to minimize ‘collateral damage,’ or the unintended bombing of non-combatants and non-military facilities.

One might think that this precision would silence all but the most pacifistic of airpower critics, shifting debate from jus in bello arguments of just and legal means of using airpower to the jus ad bellum regime of justifying force in the first place. Instead, the success of precision attack has highlighted a gray area within the jus in bello paradigm: the legitimacy of destroying targets, such as electrical power facilities, that impact both military operations and civilian lives. A key example of such dual-use targeting was the destruction of Iraqi electrical power facilities in Desert Storm. While crippling Iraq’s military command and control capability, destruction of these facilities shut down water purification and sewage treatment plants. As a result, epidemics of gastroenteritis, cholera, and typhoid broke out,2 leading to perhaps as many as 100,000 civilian deaths and a doubling of the infant mortality rate.3 Given such effects on non-combatants, are electrical power facilities legitimate military targets? Does airpower doctrine acknowledge, support, or condemn such indirect effects? Must air campaign planners weigh these indirect effects in their target selection process?"
Bombing Dual-Use Targets: Legal, Ethical, and Doctrinal Perspectives

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IMO when they get together they make a problem because they can distort the process because of their religious view being set into motion in the political circle. It makes thing very bad. Separation of church and state is corretly the answer. Yet when the people that hold the power in a given country have distorted religious views and support they can bring a country to it's knees.

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ACCEPTANCE IS THE ANSWER!

We will knock on the door, if it does not open, we will revolt for our rights.

Im a Tarte, what! you want some of this?

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not all religionists believe in a GOD.

for example, there are portions of buddhists who are atheist and/or agnostic towards an ultimate GOD, yet are religious nonetheless, believing in an afterlife.

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this may depend on how we define religion, but such may be the case.

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