An unspeakable act of cowards.

[imanamerican63]

I am sadden to hear the news out of Paris. These attacks are horrible and disturbing. My thoughts and prayers are with the Paris community and those were there visiting.

[Skittles]

1. gun humping cowards are everywhere

[guillaumeb]

3. Sometimes these cowards are Presidents and Prime MInisters.

But THAT terrorism is called state craft.

[TeddyR]

5. I'm going to assume

That you aren't attempting to politicize the deaths of hundreds at the hands of terrorists. But please let me know if I'm wrong, and you in fact are attempting to make a political point on the blood of innocents.

[Skittles]

7. what part of those terrorists are GUN HUMPING COWARDS do you not understand?

[woodsprite]

26. Yup, I unfriended one tonight. n/t

[lpbk2713]

2. Committing this level of carnage in the name of religion ...

is totally incomprehensible. The horror is overwhelming.

[hifiguy]

10. The Abrahamic "religions" are responsible for more human misery,

death and carnage than anything else in the last 2,500 years and it's not even close.

[lpbk2713]

14. I don't make a distinction.

Anyone who has no regard for human life and justifies it with the blessing of their own personal Sky Pilot is not a rational thinking human being.

[hifiguy]

16. Nope.

But religulous carnage is very much a creature of the Abrahamic fairytales.

[jack_krass]

18. No they're not

This is as stupid as blaming guns for mass shootings.

Group A killing Group B is made possible by dehumanizing classes of "other" people, along with a deemphasizing of individual rights in favor of the collective. Add some totalitarianism, and it occurs at mass scale.

This has nothing in particular to do with Abrahamic religions (it predates them), and can happen under the guise of anything: Commission, Naziism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, or just about anything else.

[hifiguy]

19. The Crusades, the conquest and slaughter of the natives

in the New World in the name of gawd and gold, mass pogroms of European Jews in the name of Jebus, three hundred years of literal witch hunts, the Inquisition, the burning of tens of thousands of heretics, religious war after religious war in medieval Europe. And that's just the last thousand years.

Try again.

[imanamerican63]

20. This not time to....

to split hairs on the what is their beliefs.

[jack_krass]

21. Nice cherry picking of history

Let's diversify a little bit from your Eurocentric, Christian centric viewpoint...

-Communists (atheists) murdered millions last century
-Nazis (pagans) murdered millions last century
-Cambodians(Budhists) murdered millions last century

These three non christian groups account for hundreds of millons dead in recent contemporary history.
Again, I'll state that it's totalitarianism combines with deemphasizing individual rights that's causes systematic mass murder. History clearly teaches this lesson to those open minded enough to listen.

[hifiguy]

22. Hardly.

Every one of the things you mention happened. Though the Cambodian massacre was motivated by an extreme form of Maoism. Buddhism had zero to do with it. Every one of the atrocities I mentioned was committed specifically in the name of xtianity. Facts are facts.

But xtianity has been visiting horrors of various kinds on the world for 2000 years, and Islam for about 1200. No contest.

[jack_krass]

25. Wrong

The three examples I gave are from the last century..
The death toll (hundreds of millions) from these systematic massacres commited by non Abrahamic peoples is staggering and exceeds the total of all massacres committed by Christians jews, and Muslims by an order of magnitude.

This should be enough to demolish your argument. I could continue to go back further and give examples from centuries past, but I don't have the time. Suffice it to say that:
-Abrahamic people are no more prone to systematic violence than others
-it's not the religion, but other factors, like culture, totalitarianism, commitment of a group to individual liberty

[AngryAmish]

23. Ever hear of The Great Leap Forward?

Tho if you put Taiping Rebellion on the butcher's bill, you might be on to something. Would Tamerlane's reign of terror be on that list?

[LittleBlue]

4. They aren't cowards. They are dangerous sleeper agents in the army of Isis

They are committed to giving their lives to destroy us. We shouldn't underestimate the threat they pose by portraying holy warriors as cowards.

[imanamerican63]

6. You have a good point.

[dorkzilla]

8. Seems to me the two groups aren’t mutually exclusive...

You can still be a coward and wreak havoc - see also Cheney, Dick.

[840high]

9. +1

[hifiguy]

11. Excellent point.

Batshit religious insanity =/= cowardice. These maniacs are not afraid to die and that takes a certain amount of courage, no matter how lunatic the rationalization.

[REP]

15. Targeting unarmed civilians takes zero courage, no matter how much your sky daddy wuvs you

Shooting people trapped in a concert hall is the exact opposite of courage. Firing into a restaurant takes zero courage when you know no one will shoot back.

[hifiguy]

17. I disagree slightly

but you make a perfectly valid point.

[BeyondGeography]

13. Their inability to confront reality with any rationality at all makes them cowards in my eyes

Keep thinking there's a master plan in the stars that will take all of your earthly pain away. Oh, and just in case it's all bullshit, you still get to slaughter a bunch of people you hate. If that isn't cowardice, I don't know what is.

[VMA131Marine]

12. This was a declaration of war

even if we don't yet know precisely who has declared it.

[magical thyme]

24. France started bombing Syria in Sept.

ISIS can't bomb back. Expect more of this.