by Rhapsody » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:34 pm
Hans, you don't need Islam or any other faith to be a sociable and good fellow. This is so, because there are millions of good sociable fellows that are secular/atheist/non-believer, Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist etc. The fact that most people who wear all those different hats can be nice sociable good people strongly suggests you don't need much to be an OK person, get along reasonably well with others and do some good. This is true, even though many will claim they are only nice and sociable because of the hat they wear. (Of course the simple fact of wearing different hats can also be provocative causing distrust, violence.. even war.)
Not to say that wearing a hat is wrong, a sign of weakness, or that a nice hat can/should not be inspiring... only it is somewhat out of touch with reality when people (not you) claim that if they were not wearing their own particular hat, they'd be a miserable if not bad 'n lost kind of person. This would imply that if people hold on only lightly to the assumptions that make up their faith... they can take a lil' joke, more easily accept diversity, not be too heavy handed or prickly about it. When some morons start burning Korans we laugh and shrug shoulders. They in fact should be encouraged to burn more Korans, and Bible burners might wanna join as well, or any other oh-so-holy shit on print enthusiasts: to burn books or be angry/phobic about it is for the toddlers and the real phobiacs in this world. They love books more than human beings and the forests that produce the oxygen we need to breath.
In the mean time we'll wait for Ibrahim to calm down and be finished throwing around his usual porcupine poo.