The Wages of Syntax

[letsomethingshine]

"make war on them till idolatry is no more!"

...says an idol made of paper and ink. -____-

[chadd990]

I just want to say to anyone who reads this, hello.

God is good, god is great, let us thank him for this food. By his hands, we all are fed.

Thank you for feeding me god, now fuck off.

[nameofthesane]

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. I cor 13 God is love and He loves all of us equally and has a plan in our lives. Any words that are not in this verse that the world says God is are false. Its up to you to believe truth

[nameofthesane]

@charliwizaa well maybe God is calling you to show those people on islands that never heard the word Jesus before and tell them about Jesus and the only way to believe thats the truth is to accept Jesus in your heart

[moopism]

@nameofthesane "Any words that are not in this verse that the world says God is are false. Its up to you to believe truth"

So all those verses in the OT were god tells the Isrealites to slaughter entire populations, mem, women and children, but keep the virgin girls for themselves are false?!?

How about the second coming in Revelation? Doesn't sound too loving to me.

How about the book of Job? God makes a bet with satan that after he fucks up Jobs life, he'll still be his bitch?

Battered wife?

[nameofthesane]

@moopism I believe that God has a purpose for everything and although we may not understand, He has a purpose for everyone and He loves us and would never want to hurt us I believe in a just and kind God

[moopism]

@nameofthesane "He loves us and would never want to hurt us I believe in a just and kind God "

Then why did god harden pharaoh's heart?

How can god never want to hurt us and own a fully functioning lake of fire to toss us in?

How could this god wipe out Job's family to win a bet with satan?

I'll say it again, this isn't a religion of a god of love, it's the theological equivalent to battered wife syndrome.

He evens warns us in Romans 9 not to talk back to him. Total abuser.

[moopism]

@moopism Wow, for someone with all the answers, you give up awfully easy.

[UltraComboer]

*woosh* Right over my head.

[kharon8]

was anyone else thinking spy vs spy for a second

[rkyeun]

It really doesn't matter to me if Hitler was a deist, pantheist, or a catholic. The point I try to make is he wasn't an atheist, which Christians like to claim as if it were significant, and that either way religion was the driving and enabling force behind the genocide.

Well, score one point for the Vatican, then. As much as I may disagree with his books, I think suppressing them is still wrong. Take away two points if the Vatican still promotes it like they did then.

[rkyeun]

Hitler wasn't catholic. His private correspondence reveals him as a deist or pantheist. Catholicism was simply a tool he used to control the Nazis, who were Catholic.

[Xerock]

@rkyeun

No it doesn't. The anti-religion quotes in Table Talk were planted by the Frenchman who translated them. None of them appear in the original german texts.

Meanwhile, in reality, Mein Kampf regularly shows that Hitler believed he was doing God's work by exterminating the Jews.

[Popodelades]

@Xerock You actually read that bok!!??

[taliesinknol]

Didn't he actually put Catholics in Concentration Camps? Wasn't he quoted saying he was Christian? Arianism used to be a form of Christianity. Also, WHO FUCKING CARES what Hitler believed, he is a Fucking retard, (literally) drugged up, idiot!

[DarkZerkerX]

@rkyeun

Actually, Hitler was Catholic, he said it in his speeches, made the Nazis swear on God and even his motto was "God with us"(english translation). He used his uber epic power of manipulation through the masses to control Germany.

[rkyeun]

The claim was made earlier that a translator added the anti-religious things. I don't know if that's true, since I don't read German. It appears as though Hitler were deist, and using Catholicism as a means of controlling his population. You don't have to be a Christian to abuse people. It just helps. Either way, it wasn't in the name of atheism, but in the name of fanaticism.

[brokenscimitar]

Let us win your hearts and minds or we'll burn your Goddamn huts down.

[Regdot]

So what's the point of this video? ''Allah is almighty but not all loving?''

[EntinludeX]

Or that allah is neither.

[carrierexchange]

Great cartoon

[farvision]

LOL! So well done that you even had a time delay from the flash to the blast sound!!

[ChuckyJesus666]

Islam certainly has a more recent record of violence, but Christianity is not without violence either. I don't think I need to list here those examples. What it boils down to is that adherents of these religions just cherry-pick what they want out of their holy books, either to justify violence or claim they are a religion of peace. Given the huge number of contradictions found in any holy book, this is not surprising.

[WillSKB88]

I think the word for fight is "strive", meaning that this video is sort of redundant. I could be wrong in some verses, but I know it's not as blatant as that.

[DeletedDelusion]

Brilliant video.

[absoprob]

A bit too close to the gruesome truth for my tastes. I prefer the others. Having said that, I think the stark in-your-face-ness of it needs to be out there so thanks :) Keep up the god woork :) (or something like that)!

[theCamelCase]

I'm an atheist who has read both the Bible and the Qur'an. I normally love these cartoons. 2 stars for taking Qur'an quotes out of context and implying that Islam is more violent than other religions.

I hope other viewers will take the time to read the Qur'an.

[javixm]

umm... Islam IS more violent...

Which other religion flies planes into buildings?

[SAsgarters]

Indeed. It's so violent, that its killers aren't happy just killing random people, they even feel a need to kill themselves in the process.

[AirbornePig]

@javixm

What other religion is responsible for the crusades?

[theCamelCase]

@javixm

"Which other religion flies planes into buildings?"

No religion flies planes into buildings. PEOPLE fly planes into buildings. Some people murder and try to justify their actions by citing some religious text, but they just cherry-pick. The choice is theirs to make, not their religion's.

[MartinJWillett]

Do you ever notice the same logic when people following religions do something the observers consider to be good? Religions don't give to the poor, people do. Religions don't behave morally, people do. It's not the religion doing these things, the people want to do those things and they use the religion to justify their actions, they just cherry-pick.

[AlRasuwl]

People often talk about what a sinful life they led before they joined the religion of X. They credit their better lifestyle to that religion, but they are short changing themselves.

It's not the religion that makes them do good things, it is THEM who is doing the good things, they just reached a point in their life when they were ready to change - it's just a shame they feel they cannot do it without deluding themself with a mental crutch.

[ILIYYILI]

@AlRasuwl

Only religion can make good people to do bad things.

[zac3567]

@AlRasuwl you could be someone's savior and i know you exist

[javixm]

You failed to understand the point I wanted to make.

Which other religion has suicide terrorists?

How come most, maybe 99.99% of the suicide terrorist population are ragheads?

[Fordi]

Yeah, those damn northern irish ragheads, and those rag-headed students. Always bombing shit.

The United states is not the only country that gets bombed, muslims generally do not wear head wraps, and while extremist muslims do make up the largest portion of the terrorist population, terrorists are a tiny demographic within the muslim population, and thus, not representative. Your original point is valid, but your argumentation is a failure.

[theCamelCase]

@javixm

1. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in WWII, the USAF deployed bombers to Japan with inadequate fuel to return. Those pilots (who survived by chance) were Christian.

2. First, turbans are an aspect of Arab culture, not Islamic; they protect against heat and have no religious significance in Islam that I know of. Secondly, terrorism that involves suicide is no worse than terrorism that doesn't.

To answer your question, it's common among forces that suffer military disadvantage.

[theCamelCase]

Javixm, I should add that I understood your point (and the video's) and that it's a good one. This purgatory-avoiding loophole in Islam is problematic. But I do object to the removal of context for those quotes.

My point is: violent people choose violent actions and justify them using their holy books. All theists twist their holy books' words to receive the message they want. Neither the Qur'an nor Bible _make_ people violent, since cherry-picking renders holy books' contents irrelevant.

[brucxevic]

@theCamelCase: Both the Qu'ran and the Bible have terribly violent passages, but as you said, it's people that become violent by means of their own will.

Religion's main (or original) prupose was to help people lead an ethical and peaceful existence. When they manage even to twist those teachings to suit their unethical and violent fancy...well, lose all hope...

The problem is people. Thank God (LOL) there are some people who make sense. Cheers mate !!!

[CzarAdam2009]

@theCamelCase

Cherry-picking is what keeps these religious texts from being applied with more consistant violence. It's what enables these holy books to be rendered in terms that don't include the awful things actually written in them.

[Censeo]

Both the bible and Qur'an are very violent. This show that believers can have holy scripture that they don't obey. But it is dangerous nevertheless that such religious texts are part of most of the humans religious beliefs.

[FrigoCoder]

> implying that Islam is more violent than other religions

> implying

Oh the irony.

I doubt you have read the Qur'an, you wouldn't say it's not violent. Even wannabe muslims have trouble with the amount of violence in it.

[theCamelCase]

@FrigoCoder

"I doubt you have read the Qur'an, you wouldn't say it's not violent. Even wannabe muslims have trouble with the amount of violence in it."

Stop deliberately twisting my words, you arrogant and deceptive (and allegedly anti-Semitic) slimebag. You quoted me correctly then associated me with words I never wrote. And I'd bet it was deliberate because this is the second time.

_Your_ ignorance is showing, not mine. Actually read the Qur'an and the Bible. Thank you.

[Vogter2100]

*couch* it is hard to flip pages in the Koaran without seeing pages with violence i them.

To do that one has to be blind or deluded.

[MartinJWillett]

There is violence and intolerant language in the Bible but there is far more in the Qur'an.

[myswtsatn]

Actually, there isnt. Ive read them both, and the bible has much more violence, and intolerence than the qur'an. But theyre both wrong.

[arachnophile01]

@myswtsatn But the one, no one insists you read in the original language(s). (on the plus side, Arabic is pretty. I wish I could speak it.)

[Cafeeine]

Excellent!

[CountCaffeine]

Brilliant

[RichoRosai]

wait wut

i don't get it

[southparkgtaca]

It's not hard to get. lol

[ChicagoMaverik]

But it is sending mixed messages. Why would the Islamic guy change the message so that it says "YOU CAN BE GOD WITHOUT GOOD"? I read that 15 or so times and it always seems like he is saying that if there is no moral goodness like god, then YOU are god and you can do whatever you want. Why would a muslim say that? Am I missing something?

[Fordi]

Yes.

What the modified sign is intending to convey is that most Gods, as described, are not what we modern humans would call "good". Therefore, you can be God without good, apparently.

I know the wording is ambiguous; that's the point of the opposing sign.

[southparkgtaca]

So the Muslims can "justify" their God's words, telling them to kill the infidels. We see this is "bad", so...... yeah... :/