"You must not eat pork" sounds like a religion, a philosophy, an ideology, politics, policy, maybe a belief, an idea, probably not logic, and may require strategy or war to implement. It all remains a great jumble for me.
Ok, thanks for that idea! So what I'm after is a manifesto of morals, not a traditional religion. I was thinking that we could say that humans are a product of their genes and their environment, neither of which is actually their fault, so when we are fighting our enemy we should still love...
Nope. It's all gobbledygook to me. I've tried reading wikipedia on philosophy etc, but it doesn't help. It's all a big jumble to me. Perhaps I have learning difficulties.
I see. Thanks. And what happens if I add a rider at the front of the manifesto that says "God probably approves of this...
I'm not sure I understand that. But I wish for my soul (assuming something like that exists) to be working in cooperation with others to have worldwide secular capitalist liberal democracy, as any decent god would want (in my opinion). Is this the basis for a religion? I am totally confused.
I would like the holy book to be logical. Based on certain assumptions that are declared upfront. E.g. "women have the right to not be raped" and "Uday Hussein was abducting girls off the street and raping them". So logic dictates that God wants us to go to war with Uday and anyone else...
I am having great trouble figuring out the difference between religion, philosophy, ideology, politics, policy, belief, ideas, logic, strategy, war.
Before the 2003 Iraq war, George W Bush said "I believe God wants everyone to be free". I believe that too! I would like to be in a religion where...
This is indeed a very relevant comment. How on earth can Christians claim to be Christians while killing people? The fact that many Christians around the world refused to assist in Iraq is exactly why I advocate Christians converting to Islam, specifically the Mu'tazilite sect of Islam. The...
In the case of ISIS, you don't even need to bother to email the Iraqi government etc. They are already aware of the problem and are already dealing with it to the best of their ability. They are even receiving international assistance.
You may as well say that there would be no ISIS if the...
I don't believe you have any way of measuring that, but one thing I'm sure of is that a democracy with 300+ political parties is WAY different from a country that has 1 single party to "choose" from, as was the case in USSR and under Saddam.
Democracy and dictatorship are very different things...
I bring up Afghanistan because it's a great example of people supporting their own country being bombed by America. The fact that Iraq only had 50% versus Afghanistan's 85% is a very interesting fact. We had absolutely no way of knowing this number prior to the 2003 Iraq war, and it is of...
Absolutely. I have no doubt at all that the nutcases in Eastern Ukraine are expressing their own opinion freely when they say they would rather be allied with Russia than the West. They are NOT doing that under Russian duress, they really believe it. Crimea too. My opinion is thus different from...
Uday was Saddam Hussein's son, who was even more sadistic than Saddam himself.
No, that is not true. We know that 50% of Iraqis supported the 2003 war, even knowing that terrorists (not the Americans) would violently object to western-style freedom. Ditto for Afghanistan where 85% are willing...
That is EXACTLY what happened. People like you said that countries like Japan and Germany, or ethnic Chinese, or Arabs, "couldn't handle democracy and needed a dictator". That was and is a complete lie. It was possible that after liberating Iraq, that there would be 0 political parties rising...
They were never safe under Saddam. If Uday thought you were cute, you could be abducted and raped. You talk below about "freedom and dignity of human beings". Where were your crocodile tears when Iraqis did not have these things under Saddam?
The 50% of Iraqis who supported the action, and the...