Religion general

@SeraphimDawn  
My brother thinks it’s because they hold Muhammad as infalible, and he did lots of very… Medieval things, like marrying little children and saying medieval stuff, and that some general somehow related to him had a huge input into the religious doctrine.
 
What Christianity has to its advantage is that the only infallible person is God/Jesus (since the Nicene Creed is the primary source of much Christian belief and it says they’re kind of the same), and to say that anyone else is that good is considered sacrilege to Jesus, and all we have recorded of Jesus is him basically saying to be nice and stuff, which means it’s a lot more flexible.
 
Meanwhile, if you hold some prophet as absolutely unquestionably cut-your-head-off-if-you-question-his-perfection infallible that’s basically some medieval dude who lived by medieval standards… Yeah. Medieval standards become unquestionable, so you get this.
 
That’s what my bro thinks. Makes sense to me.

@Cirrus Light  
That’s understandable. I believe in a necessary evil and like you, it will naturally occur.  
I can thank that to the lazy asses of my race who are basically privileged compared to other races and yet, is pretty much equal in terms with other races.
 
It shows how much of a disappointment they are. It’s like comparing to a person being rich from birth having an average adult life to a person who was a farmer and has the similar average adult life. The former has the opportunity and he squandered it.
 
That’s how disappointed I am with my people.

Germany has a terror alert in Munich. I suspect the police will stop it but we will see.

That’s a little unsettling to hear. I don’t think anything will come of it but still.

@Whatevs  
Hope nothing bad will happen.

@Whatevs  
If something does, I’m glad to see some defenses up so that they have some heads-up/warning of these things beforehand now.
 
Funny thing is, something might have happened but then the defense agency - whatever the German equivalent of FBI or CIA is - might stop it, and then you’d never hear about it except that nothing happened, heh.

@Cirrus Light  
I just love how the connection between importing terror and terrorism is never made

@Whatevs  
Ah, yes, the forced collective suicide of European nations - because political correctness is willing stupidity - burying your head into the sand to the point of people dying.
 
Freakin’ liberals, so careful to look good, feel good about themselves, and “not hurt anyone’s feelings,” that they’re leading to a lot of good people dying… Most things in life I can laugh off, but that just makes me mad. They deserve to have buckets of blood splashed on them, not some random chick for wearing a fur coat…

@Cirrus Light  
I’m fine with accepting refugees. Each town should vote. Any town which says yes, gets refugees. And priority for placement is given to places where people voted Yes most strongly. That’s how I would do things.

@Whatevs  
Sounds like a good way to do things. Forcing refugees into a city, town or country just angers people if they do not want them there. I’m fine with accepting refugees, because Canada has a pretty good system of weeding out the extremists as far as I can see.

@NileDawnheart  
You will see. The problem is people are stupid and forget that terrorism is not the only reason to oppose refugees

@NileDawnheart  
Plus we have a lot of space here. I rather those refugees come here to Canada than clog up Europe.  
Germany isn’t as blessed.

@Whatevs  
Oh yeah I’ve seen plenty of these videos and news stories. A lot of Middle Eastern and North African men have little to no respect for Western values, so we constantly get stories of Muslim rape gangs like Rotherham, the epidemic in Sweden and just general hostility towards women, especially from migrants coming from Africa.

@SeraphimDawn  
Canada’s got nice amounts of land where refugees can live. Poor Europe might not.

@NileDawnheart  
We got the great north, right?  
Northwest Territories and Nunavut need more people right?

@NileDawnheart  
And, as we all know, the influx of mostly male refugees has altered the gender ratio in Sweden to favor men. Which will make the rape issue worse.

@Background Pony #F1A3  
Supposed to be me

@Cirrus Light
 
I always thought Einstein was agnostic.
 
He had a definite notion that something out there made everything, that we were not just a random chance (“God does not play dice with the universe…”), but had trouble believing a being as vast as God actually cared about individual people (“I believe in Spinoza’s God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”)

@SeraphimDawn  
I’m sure they’d like the southern parts more. The refugees need to get used to regular Canadian winter before they face Nunavut.
 
The ultimate challenge.

@NileDawnheart  
Canada is made to be a multicultural country. Unlike most of Europe where most places already have long established cultures.

@SeraphimDawn  
Arguable but unproven. It’s less unstable because of your points system but you still have issues. Part of Vancouver is Chinese, the other part white. Little mixing.

@Whatevs  
Chinese mostly populate Richmond. If you go there, you wouldn’t feel like you’re in Canada. The whole place is a Mega-Chinatown.  
South Asians and Middle Eastern resident mostly concentrate in Surrey. The municipality with the highest violent crime rate in the region.

@SeraphimDawn  
Thank you. Gonna mock Canadians now

@Whatevs  

 
Nothing came of this. Thank god.

@NileDawnheart  
Maybe they should have teams hunt rape gangs.
 
I have no pity for rape gangs. I’ll sit and argue endlessly why Starlight should receive a very light punishment, but hearing about rape gangs getting shot at wouldn’t incur much, if any pity from me at all. Safer streets, less trash littering the country.
 
Except at least actual, inanimate garbage doesn’t rape and/or murder innocent people. I’d rather have a landfill next door than a neighborhood of those people.
 

 
…Eh, maybe I’m being a bit harsh. Garbage isn’t that much of a problem. And the hunt teams might be a bit much, too. I wouldn’t want them mis-identifying some meandering gang of guys.
 

 
@YetAnotherBrony  
He was. Not everything I cite as fascinating or interesting or that I like has to support my own religious views. Even if I were to stop being Mormon, I don’t think I’d ever drop my Einstein-like fascination with the universe, or stop holding views very much like his in being overwhelmed by the beauty of the harmony of the cosmos, and the recognition that even the most brilliant minds only dimly suspect some superficial order to it compared to the deeper riches that lie undiscovered.
 
Humans are an interesting break in that harmony. They can either be evil, a sickening darkness in it, or they can be angelic, a kind of mercy from the unforgiving laws of nature which know no such thing. Who was it that mused that humans are a way for the cosmos to know itself? Can’t remember - but that observation even fits in a religious context, I might add.