Bizarro Kanyon posted:

"Moon God"

I have heard this claim (Muslims worship a moon god) so many times from Christians. Does anyone know here it came from (using a lunar calendar or the use of a crescent moon as a symbol)?

VitalSigns posted:

God, I love that comic so much. The Muslim is threatening the man's life and gloating about the coming worldwide caliphate, then the guy goes "My friend..." spouts some unsubstantiated bullshit and suddenly the Muslim is all "Oh three daughters of the moon god, you say, well gosh I guess I am going to hell, tell me about your Christ!"

ArchangeI posted:

Also what is that about a figure of Allah sitting on a throne? I thought Islam didn't allow depictions of living things, Allah included?

ArchangeI posted:

Also what is that about a figure of Allah sitting on a throne? I thought Islam didn't allow depictions of living things, Allah included?

EightBit posted:

Isn't Islam stemming from polytheism/paganism basically correct, as it is derived from faiths that can be traced back to polytheism?

Nevvy Z posted:

Someone should do an inversion of that explaining how the easter bunny represents pagan fertility rituals therefore no Jesus.

muscles like this? posted:

Maybe a book called "Islamic Invasion" isn't the best source?


Edit: The best part of that comic is how the Christian guy doesn't exactly offer any "proof." He just quotes scripture and the Muslim guy converts. "Oh, YOUR holy book says that its right and my religion is wrong? I guess that must be so, why would it lie?"

Ghost of Reagan Past posted:

Polytheistic religions like Christianity and Judaism, yes.

radical meme posted:

Here you go. Forwarded by my crazy family.

Job Truniht posted:

I'm thinking of just de-friending one of my relatives now that I found out he is a tea partier, but I think I'd like to confront him first.

Dyz posted:

Holy loving balls...

What scares me is that whoever made this obviously has a little bit of knowledge about Islam, but not once do they mention that it worships the same god recognized by the Christians and the Jews. They don't mention that giving alms is one of the five pillars of Islam. Just... wow.

VitalSigns posted:

Yeah but then God stopped by and told Peter to stop being such a square and eat some drat bacon, so it's a bit more complicated than that.

VitalSigns posted:

Yeah but then God stopped by and told Peter to stop being such a square and eat some drat bacon, so it's a bit more complicated than that.

Pththya-lyi posted:

Naw, that story is actually about how you should accept Gentiles. The "unclean" animals God invites Peter to eat are a metaphor for the "unclean" people he should care about.

Pththya-lyi posted:

Naw, that story is actually about how you should accept Gentiles. The "unclean" animals God invites Peter to eat are a metaphor for the "unclean" people he should care about.

Job Truniht posted:

I'm thinking of just de-friending one of my relatives now that I found out he is a tea partier, but I think I'd like to confront him first.

VitalSigns posted:

Why can't they be both?

Are you saying that Peter defied God and still didn't eat them? Or that after he did, God was like "Ha, psych! That was just a metaphor telling you to convert the Romans...I can't believe you actually ate that accursed flesh! Enjoy Hell!"

Acts 10:28 posted:

“You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean."

MisterBadIdea posted:

We defend all those things with armed guards. I am glad to see he doesn't mind paying extra taxes to pay for security officers at loving elementary schools.

radical meme posted:

Here you go. Forwarded by my crazy family.

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After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive Out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, [...] Palestine -- Muslim 99%

E-Tank posted:

If you have absolutely no choice but to beat the hell out of your child, you have failed as a parent and need to seek help from professionals.

muscles like this? posted:

They also continue to willfully ignore what "Gun Free Zone" means. Its not supposed to stop criminals, its supposed to stop regular people from bringing guns into those areas to prevent accidental shootings.

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

"Moon God"

I have heard this claim (Muslims worship a moon god) so many times from Christians. Does anyone know here it came from (using a lunar calendar or the use of a crescent moon as a symbol)?

quote:

The date of Easter is determined as the first Sunday after the paschal full moon, the 14th day of a lunar month, determined from tables.

muscles like this? posted:

They also continue to willfully ignore what "Gun Free Zone" means. Its not supposed to stop criminals, its supposed to stop regular people from bringing guns into those areas to prevent accidental shootings.

Mo_Steel posted:

Azipod posted:

That's pretty much the exact reason why most filthy gunhavers don't like them. Putting up a pretty sign without enforcement or security doesn't actually make anyone safer, and if you don't enforce your "Gun Free Zone" anyone can carry a concealed weapon onto the premises anyway. This is why actual gun free zones like government buildings have armed guards (With GUNS ) and metal detectors and controlled access points and probably swarms of FEMA drones or something.

Mostly the macro is (poorly) trying to make the point that the government relies on guns and a monopoly of force to maintain its own security and that it is therefore hypocritical for the government to restrict its citizens from carrying sidearms to protect themselves.

Mornacale posted:

The government having a monopoly on firearm use is no more hypocritical than having a monopoly on the power of eminent domain, to choose an arbitrary one of the enormous number of powers society delegates to the government without reserving for private individuals.

Azipod posted:

I'm just trying to fill in some background knowledge here, because a lot of these lovely ARE GUNS memes reference insider knowledge and esoteric gun culture stuff that isn't obvious to people that aren't involved in it. Which is a pretty big part of why GUN CONTROL debates are so lovely.

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The inherent racism of liberalism
By Sylvia Thompson

Congressman Elbert Guillory has eloquently told the America people why he is leaving the Democratic Party. As many now know, Elbert Guillory is a black politician from Louisiana, and I give kudos, cheers, and hurrahs to him. I am always heartened by a black person awakening to the reality that the Democratic Party stands for liberalism, and liberalism at its core, is racist.

Progressivism, liberalism, socialism, communism have one thing in common, as I interpret them. They all require that some designated human or group of humans maintains power over other humans. To maintain power (and often wealth), the drivers of these ideologies must keep the masses that they manipulate under control. There must be a permanent underclass of people enabling the wealth and power of those who would be their "saviors." Those who would provide for the needs that a balanced human being should provide for himself.

This situation is no different in my view from the slavery that my ancestors (and many other groups throughout human history) experienced. It can even be argued that it is worse. Southern slave owners shackled bodies; these ideologies shackle the soul.

What touches me deeply, as a black person, is the realization that blacks in America are perfect fodder for manipulation by those who adhere to liberalism. Several centuries of conditioning to think that one must be cared for to survive makes for an easy target. Consequently, liberal Democrats (black and white) have used blacks perniciously.

As an adult, I have been able to assess my experience in America with a degree of maturity. I have experienced helpful revelations and come to a few conclusions, all of which position me diametrically opposed to any ideology that diminishes the humanity in human beings.

When I was growing up in Texas under legal segregation, my environment included all the levels of the black experience. In addition to the profane, the assorted criminal types, were the professionals. My doctor; the hospital where my mother delivered my younger siblings; my dentist (a high-school friend of my mother); my high-school principal, administrators, and teachers; and pretty much everything else was black and black owned. My parents were high-school educated and not of the same economic status as the professional blacks around us, but because those professionals were there, as role models for what could be, many of my generation and I were not likely to consider ourselves victims. And liberalism thrives on victims.

In the past several decades, black communities have become laboratories for liberal Democrat experiments in churning out victims. First they remove all God-given moral strictures by infiltrating the once-stalwart black church and turning the heads of pastors, then they throw in a convenient Planned Parenthood abortion facility to take care of the consequences of the rampant immoral behavior. They then install liberal blacks in political leadership of the communities to keep the masses in check. The resulting chaos and suffering are rife throughout Democrat-controlled areas in this nation. And blacks suffer the most, given our percentage of the population.

What has become of blacks in America under the thumb of liberalism is a travesty beyond calculation. Because unlike the slave masters of centuries ago, who shackled bodies that could thrive after the shackles were removed, liberalism shackles the mind and the soul, which is a lot more difficult to reclaim. And for that reason, I loathe liberalism and all of its companion ideologies. I am also averse to acceptance of anything that adherents to liberalism may have to offer. That includes Barack Obama.