The Iraq That We've Created
Ansar Al Sunnah Beheads 3 Interior Ministry Workers
The Army of Ansar Al Sunnah an Iraqi Insurgency group released a 15 minute video showing the capture and the beheading of 3 Interior Ministry workers. They executed the three workers claiming that they were responsible for some of the alleged attrocities against Sunni prisioners in iraq including using hand drills to drill holes in prisoners as a method of torture. These alleged attrocities is one of the main reasons for the conflict between Sunni muslims and the Shiite muslims in the region.
It doesn't get any worse than this.
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They were Muslims under Saddam Hussein, and this didn't happen. Religion merely provides the cover for the symptom. The disease? Extremism. Our extremism breeds further extremism. Our religion is violence, death, anti-Muslim sentiment and corporate profits, their resolve then hardens against these, and responds both against and in kind towards the same.
South America has hurled to the Left in response to America's hurling to the Right.
Examples abound.
As Colon (the otherwise ass) Powell said: if you break it, it's yours. This is the Moron's mess, and we inherit it.
I do agree with that.
And, imo, it all stems from man/woman's inability to cope with either his/her death and meaninglessness.
Well, we don't know exactly who invested agriculture and herding, but it certainly wasn't the Babylonians, because at the time it predated the beginnings of Babylon. Unfortunatly, it also developed before writing developed. But you're on the right track and in the right part of the world. But the likely originators of both could have been either the Sumerians or Akkadians (likely the former). The progenitors of both would become the Babylonians thousands of years later (Hammurabi would be perhaps the most famous Babylonian king). But to understand the relationship between gods, agriculture and war, check out Richard Gabriel's "The Culture of War," where he talks about the creation of the priests and the soldiers as the "parasitic class," who would take positions of privilege while the truly indispensible group, the farmers, were relegated to the low rung of the totem pole. Here's Gabriel's link. (But his books are quite expensive. Not meant for the herd ;-):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313266646/104-0692709-4656769?v=glance&n=283155
Food for thought: your need to control your environment, to not allow anything in your space, your reality that is of the unseen, that is uncontrollable (aka spiritual)is, in my opinion a running mate to the notion of mental disorder. One of the most difficult concepts for humankind is to NOT be in control, whether that's to control your destiny, your health or the idea of something existing that you cannot see. Therefore, I think gray area is good, the idea that most any form of thinking on this topic is 'ok' because it ultimately is your own religion; it creates order for you.
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