Faith writes:
You guys don't live in the real world. Parasomnium, Nighttrain, Ringo, Jaderis. I give up.
Come on Faith, that's too easy. What's so other-worldly about denouncing violence as a solution to a problem? Or about thinking that shelling positions with children in the vicinity, no matter how the situation arose, is morally questionable, to say the least? Or about thinking that executing people is not a good way of making progress as a society? Whatever happened to "Thou shalt not kill"?
Here's a real solution. Cadres and legions of Christians from all over the world, but especially America, should be going into both Lebanon and Israel and all over the Middle East. By the thousands. Under heavy prayer cover.
As solutions go, it might indeed be better than the current war in southern Lebanon. I imagine a Lebanese father shouting to his wife and children: "Look out! Incoming prayer!" and the wife replying: "Mwah..."
But anyway, if it's a solution, I'm not entirely sure what problem it's a solution to. The surplus of American Christians? The lack of suitable targets for suicide bombers? To give the flies some respite from dying like themselves? I don't want to insult anyone, but "heavy prayer cover" sounds a lot more not-of-this-world than anything I've seen in this thread so far. Besides, it's exactly that kind of thinking - the religious fundamentalist kind of thinking - which is causing the problems in the first place.
I will now stop arguing and start praying.
Like I said, that's too easy. Anyway, if I know you a little, you're not going to stop arguing.
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." - Charles Darwin.