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Originally Posted by graciegirl
This is kind and fair. Not all of us are engineered to be scientists and our abilities to conceptualize many things are very different. We cannot always make another understand the things we think we know and we are forced to take others the way they are, hoping they will do the same and accept us.. That is why I like some of the old wisdom, the tradition passed down from generation to another.
It probably will not be important for most of us for the rest of our lives whether we think of ourselves as all primates, and somehow related; the fuzzy ones and the unfuzzy ones.
When I went to school, all I remember about Muslim people is that they were called Moors and were responsible for the arch and had to be tortured by the Spanish to find out stuff.
I wish that there would be a way to teach differences in philosophy and religion fairly in public school, but most of us don't want our children to be taught that another way is the "right" way. I know I didn't. I would handle that myself...but as a result, we really DON'T know much about other peoples religious beliefs and other peoples lack of religious beliefs.
We cannot, should not, will not be all alike. But we can work to be accepting of each other.
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I keep going back in time on this. This Marine saw good friends and buddies killed by Muslims. He returned home and watched more die.
I mentioned earlier...my uncle who witnessed first hand....brutal slayings by Japanese of his very good friends and frankly had he heard about anything being taught about Japan, he would have been front and center at the school.
Thus I cut this guy a break....my uncle would give anyone the shirt of his back but could not forget what he witnessed during the war with Japanese.
Today, with this doggone internet, we get information about situations like this so instantly and then with our current culture, we all jump on board to take a side and get it spread everywhere.
I do not read too much into this...I do not understand the pontificating as if this isolated incident was going to change the world.
I do not throw stones JUST to throw stones and this strikes me as something that should be left to die. There is no great moral lesson to be learned. There is no impact on anyone except those right on the scene.
The situation with Muslims will work out, one way or another. Hating anyone just because strikes me as a total waste of time. We are not charged with making policy, so lets just let folks live their lives....make mistakes..do good things....you know, LIFE. Our war is with RADICAL MUSLIMS. Some, with agendas seem to want to make this something it is not.