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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: Do you condemn Hamas?
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 00:35:58 +0200
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On 6/8/24 00:15, bitrex wrote:
> On 6/7/2024 5:01 PM, john larkin wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 16:51:24 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> "john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:f7r66j9igh2jc9ndb8pj5vsc5310fbopvj@4ax.com...
>>>> On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 19:53:35 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/7/24 16:49, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Actually, Hamas makes sense. They send Jews to hell because they are
>>>>>> heretics, and send Muslims to heaven to be blessed martyrs. So for
>>>>>> Hamas, killing is always win-win.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Some kind of sense, given that there is neither heaven, nor hell.
>>>>> Religion, islam in particular, is only pernicious brainwashing.
>>>>> There is no afterlife. There is only this life. Don't waste it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>
>>>> Until you understand the origin of the universe and the nature of
>>>> consciousness, you can't know.
>>>>
>>>> Religion is human's reason to have morality. Morality leads to
>>>> enlightment and a kind, just, productive society. Where else would
>>>> morality and justice come from?
>>>>
>>>> One interpretation of religion is our collective feelings about proper
>>>> behavior to others. Obviously, there are different religions with,
>>>> possibly, genetic components.
>>>>
>>>> In my personal experience, religious people are nicer than atheists.
>>>
>>> https://russell-j.com/0464NP.HTM
>>
>> Gosh, what a jerk.
>>
> 
> Religion and atheism are probably somewhat tangential issues to the 
> state of "being a jerk", which tends to develop based on experiences 
> that begin in very early childhood, well before a person is able to 
> grasp what either term means very well.
> 
> That is to say I'm skeptical religion or atheism alone has the power to 
> put the jerk in anyone who wasn't more-or-less already there, and I'm 
> skeptical religion or atheism alone has the power to un-jerk anyone who 
> showed up that way, already.
> 

Yes, that's probably true.

Who was it that said: "Kill them all, god will know his own!". Some
-presumably religious- crusader commander? Now there's a jerk.

Jeroen Belleman