I know many of you won’t even bother to read this but I implore you, it you care about me even if only a little bit please read it. If you are not going to read it then maybe you should reevaluate your connection with me. I’m sickened by all the Democrats are this and Republicans are that! In his final address to the Nation, our first President George Washington warned that political parties were a danger because they only served to divide the Nation and pit people against each other. Well here we are and guess what…that is exactly what is happening. Now about radicalized religious beliefs: Yes it’s true in the Quran it says to: Quran (2:191-193) - "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out. And Al-Fitnah [disbelief or unrest] is worse than killing... but if they desist, then lo! Allah is forgiving and merciful. And fight them until there is no more Fitnah [disbelief and worshipping of others along with Allah] and worship is for Allah alone. But in the Christian Bible it says: John 15:6 says: If anyone does not abide in me, he shall be cast outside as the branch and whither; and they shall gather them up and cast them into the fire, and they shall burn. In Luke 19:27, Jesus says: Those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them, bring them here and kill them in front of me. And in the Jewish Torah it says: Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT) They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB) So tell me, what is the difference here? None! It is all self-radicalization; when a person or group of people go off the deep end and act out on words that were written centuries ago by men here on earth that somehow believed that they knew the “real” word of God. How sad and pathetic! So here we are, we have this Omar nutjob that shot up a Gay club full of Homosexuals because he was homophobic, had been reading the Quran, doing online research into ISIL and had Bi-Polar disorder. The FBI knew this and did nothing about it. Plain and simply fucking tragic! Oh and by the way, before you think otherwise, yes I do think ISIL is a real and present danger just as much as I do about any group of individuals that have radical religious beliefs that include killing others. How about Timothy McVeigh? McVeigh was raised Roman Catholic. During his childhood, he and his father attended Mass regularly. McVeigh was confirmed at the Good Shepherd Church in Pendleton, New York, in 1985. In a 1996 interview, McVeigh professed belief in "a God", although he said he had "sort of lost touch with" Catholicism and "I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs." He was a Persian Gulf War veteran, sought revenge against the federal government for its handling of the Waco siege, which ended in the deaths of 76 people exactly two years before the bombing, as well as for the Ruby Ridge incident in 1992. McVeigh hoped to inspire a revolt against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. McVeigh claimed to have been a target of bullying at school, and he took refuge in a fantasy world where he imagined retaliating against the bullies. McVeigh became intensely interested in gun rights after he graduated from high school, as well as the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, and read magazines such as Soldier of Fortune. How about Buford O. Furrow? Months prior to the shooting, Buford O. Furrow had been treated for mental illness while in the custody of the state of Washington. Found with him were two books by Richard Kelly Hoskins, a Lynchburg, Virginia, leader of the Christian Identity movement were also found; a copy of the book War Cycles, Peace Cycles, and Vigilantes of Christendom: The Story of Phineas Priesthood, a book which according to the ADL justifies anti-Semitic and racist acts of violence. On August 7, Furrow bought a used red Chevrolet van in Tacoma, Washington, and loaded it with five rifles, two pistols, 6,000 rounds of ammunition and a flak jacket. Furrow considered attacking three Jewish institutions: the Skirball Cultural Center, the American Jewish University and the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance, but security measures presented too much of a problem. Furrow proceeded to drive from again from Washington to the San Fernando Valley with the stated purpose of "killing Jews". Three days later, Furrow pulled off the freeway into the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles and made his way to the North Valley Jewish Community Center just before 11 a.m. There were about 250 children playing outside when Furrow walked into the lobby carrying an Uzi-type submachine-gun. He opened fire, spraying bullets from right to left, leaving smoke and more than 70 casings on the ground. When he was done, a receptionist, a camp counselor and three little boys were wounded. SO… Why is it that religion seems to be a catalyst of war and other forms of indiscriminate violence? I think it is because some people, unfortunately a huge number of people, take these words from “God” and twist them into their own sick agendas or they are so mentally ill that they are easily influenced into performing horrific acts just because the "Good Book" says so. No matter how you spin it, it is sick, tragic and devastating and until we stop working against each other, democrats vs. republicans, and work together to come up with real common solutions to this problem it is only going to get worse. So go ahead vote for your “lessor of two evils” but I implore you; do your own personal research into the facts rather than allowing yourself to be spoon fed political dogma from party members who clearly have their own agendas. We live in precarious times – how interesting that the Maya said that that on December 12, 2012 that our world would change, as we know it. From my point of view, that is exactly what is happening and it scares the fucking shit out of me.
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