Israeli MP blames quakes on gays

[-wittyphrasehere-]

Originally Posted by sera300

Pretty correct; listen to both sides and then make up your mind. What scares me the most is the extremist which are in politics which cannot find the way to separate their extreme beliefs in their political choices. Much similar to the radical Evangelist's blaming gays for all societal issues; moreover, with this it's and act of God [and earthquake] without cause, blaming a specific population, for specific natural effects. Did you know there was one the other day in CT? I suspect the will blame this too on the "gays". Intolerance in today's world annoys me. Personally I'd rather buy into there is an International Global Influence Group/Intelligence that strategically places such through causing underground plates to shift for economic reasons or the global good.

Listening to both sides is key; issues are rarely black and white. Review carefully, but don't lose objectivity and become a fence sitter. "Sit on the fence and you're gonna get hurt." Ignorance in today's world annoys me. Pulling a page from Sam Harris, I think the problem isn't so much beliefs, but a lack of questioning of them, and people allow themselves and others take action based on these unsupported fallacies.
There's a lot of hatred in the world, and people find targets to take it out on. They take whatever small grievances they've had with these scapegoats, find whatever they can find to justify their ideals and work themselves so much as to almost believe in. If the mobs like the tune they're spewing, they get elected.
If people could only sit back and dissect their own motives, their own beliefs, find ways of displacing their angst properly, the world would be golden.

[sera300]

Originally Posted by -wittyphrasehere-

Listening to both sides is key; issues are rarely black and white. Review carefully, but don't lose objectivity and become a fence sitter. "Sit on the fence and you're gonna get hurt." Ignorance in today's world annoys me. Pulling a page from Sam Harris, I think the problem isn't so much beliefs, but a lack of questioning of them, and people allow themselves and others take action based on these unsupported fallacies.
There's a lot of hatred in the world, and people find targets to take it out on. They take whatever small grievances they've had with these scapegoats, find whatever they can find to justify their ideals and work themselves so much as to almost believe in. If the mobs like the tune they're spewing, they get elected.
If people could only sit back and dissect their own motives, their own beliefs, find ways of displacing their angst properly, the world would be golden.

Not a fence sitter; try to see objectively. Hatred is the key to many of the findings and lack of moral/mind thoughts of their own; therefore, they rely on what they deem as elite to make their choices [aka the "Elite group theory"]. What ever happened to "Personal Choice Theory"? It require looking at facts, agendas & drawing [objectively] your opinions regardless of a set of beliefs placed upon one by an institution.

[machine_rat]

Are gays the new Jews ("the Jews caused the Black Plague!!!")?

It's as if somehow homosexuality is a new thing, that it must certainly be the cause for the world's ills today. As if it hasn't been around since even before biblical times.

[John117]

Sometimes it's kind of funny to hear these ridiculous claims. Like Sally Kern who got alot of death threats for saying "gays are worse than terrorists".

Then again, it emphasizes the blinded stupidity of the bigots among us.

[LadyBug02]

How ridiculous. Quakes are not caused by tolerance for gays.