*IF* it turns out that the Boston Bombers were.. [View all]

[Phillip McCleod]

..motivated by religious zeal..

..can we finally start talking about the problem of ***religious fundamentalism*** and the violence it almost invariably begets without defensiveness? Any fundies here? Good, I'm glad we got that out of the way.

So far it's looking good for a zealot of some sort. We need a united front against would-be McVeighs, Bin Ladens and yes the Stalins. All the cynical bastards who use other people's hopes to consolidate their cruel grips.. they need to go.

All the crackpot ideas need to go. There can be no agreement on *made up stuff*, and so until we can avoid religion and politics in discussions like good Freemasons, maybe we should have an INTERNATIONAL discussion about the proper role of religion in politics and, yes, polite society.

We need to lance this festering boil before it kills more innocents.

(See the *** above.. i'm talking about FUNDIES, so don't get your onesies in a bunch liberal believers. We're here talking aren't we? We aren't bombing each other. Let's keep this up and see where it goes.)