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merry zombie jesus day..., 2007-04-08 18:45:11 | Main | Shorter Fritz Fischer's "Making Them Like Us", chapters 1 and 2..., 2007-04-09 14:30:31 hark, a gwoteist: There's this hilarious quote from this Sam Harris guy about the Koran and redheads that I wanted to share - from the youtube stuff in the comments of the previous post - but rather than go back and find it I found this instead: it is misleading to describe the Tamil Tigers as “secular,” as Pape often does. While the motivations of the Tigers are not explicitly religious, they are Hindus who undoubtedly believe many improbable things about the nature of life and death. The cult of martyr-worship that they have nurtured for decades has many of the features of religiosity that one would expect in people who give their lives so easily for a cause You see, Sam's argument a second ago was that religion is a major determinant for suicide bombing. Now we see that suicide bombing is a major determinant for religion. The circle completes itself, propping up the conventional wisdom with unfalsifiable statements. Real scientificky stuff. :: posted by buermann @ 2007-04-09 12:32:22 CST | link Comments: We must reach out to these completely unreasonable people. It wouldn't do to demonize them on the basis of their inherent viciousness, cultural supported insanity and thanatophilia. At the same time, we must also help them understand that some ideas are worse than others and bring it home to them that acting out has consequences. I could become a wingnut all too easily :-( posted by Scruggs @ 2007-04-09 17:30:51 | link They are simultaneously the monsters under my bed and young bratty children. You could get published and receive excited accolades from the New York Times as you're inducted into the cable news expert farm with that kind of scoldingly fearful gravitas. posted by buermann @ 2007-04-09 18:08:41 | link go ahead, express that vague notion Name: Email: Homepage: Comment your turing test: