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Undertoad Saturday Sep 29 01:25 PM |
9/29: Malnourished Afghan child
Hubris Boy Saturday Sep 29 03:36 PM Dad looks like he's seen better days, too. elSicomoro Saturday Sep 29 09:23 PM The Taliban is yelling Holy War for Allah, yet they can't even feed their own people. Perhaps the refugees are smarter than their leaders. Religion doesn't feed a widow and her 5 young children. juju2112 Sunday Sep 30 04:36 AM Quote:
<br> Actually, according to <a href="http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/June/Afghan/index.html"> this article</a>, religion does feed children. <br> <br> Most of the populus is dirt poor, and the only way to feed themselves is to either join the military or enlist with the Taliban. Want a bowl of hot soup and some bread? Suuuure...just sit right here and listen to our religous rhetoric. <br> <br> -- juju elSicomoro Sunday Sep 30 05:34 PM Quote:
I think of those two American women that are currently being held in Afghanistan for "proselytizing." Their families say that they were not preaching Christianity. As suspicious as I am, I tend to believe them, particularly given what seems to be the downright paranoid and brutal nature of the Taliban. I think it comes back to how religion is used to blind people from their suffering, and how some people follow it so blindly. A distortion on both ends. What did Marx call it? "An opiate for the masses"? I don't have any objection to religion, as I consider myself a Christian and was raised semi-Catholic. But I find it both amazing and scary how something so subjective is used so effectively at times.
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