Religion & Spirituality - 16 June 2006

2006-06-16 03:15:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-16 03:13:02 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

The destruction of the world trade centre and the attack on the pentagon has been described as the greatest act of terrorism.
However history demonstrates that the most horrific acts of Terrorism has been carried out by the freedom loving democratic nation, the United States of America . According to their own Official FBI definition of terrorism: “Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.”

IRAQ :
From 1991 to the present day the United States Air Force and Navy have slaughtered over 200,000 civilian people in Iraq with Depleted Uranium missiles, cluster bombs, cruise missiles and other so-called “smart bombs.”

During the “Desert Storm” terror campaign the arsenal also included fuel-air bombs and napalm.

177 million pounds of bombs were dropped on the people of Iraq in the most concentrated aerial bombardment in the history of the world. In the 110,000 sorties of the six-week onslaught the cowardly American and British pilots (and to a lesser extent French and Saudi pilots) mass-murdered at least 200,000 people, using depleted uranium missiles, napalm, cluster-bombs, fuel-air bombs, cruise missiles and other so-called “smart bombs.” The slaughter of civilian people in the Amariyah bomb shelter was a Prime example of this American/British state terrorism. Most of them were women, children, elderly, and invalids from a new housing development. Cowardly U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force jet pilots caught one sixty-mile-long column of fleeing Iraqi soldiers and Palestinian civilian families in vehicles on the Kuwait to Basra highway - and pounded them ruthlessly with bombs and machine-gun fire. The road, clogged by four lanes of one-way, bumper-to-bumper traffic, was carpet bombed by B-52s dropping 1,000-pound bombs, and repeatedly hit with laser-guided missiles and “smart” bombs. All the Iraqi soldiers, as well as Palestinian workers and their families, were slaughtered without mercy. The bloodthirsty American pilots gleefully described the massacre as “shooting in a sheep pen.”

During the Desert Storm terror campaign at least 944,000 rounds of Depleted Uranium ammo were fired from American A-10 Warthogs all over Iraq and Kuwait . When a depleted uranium tipped shell strikes a tank or armoured personnel carrier it easily penetrates the armour and burns the crew alive. The impact also vaporizes the depleted uranium, creating an aerosol of radioactive heavy-metal particles which can spread as far as 190 miles on the wind. When inhaled or ingested, the depleted uranium particles cause chemical and radioactive damage to the bronchial tree, kidneys, liver and bones. Cancer often results, and the effects can even include genetic damage.

The Dutch Laka Foundation estimates that the United States terror campaign left behind 300-800 tons of radioactive waste from this ammunition all over Kuwait and Iraq - poisoning the air, the land, the water and the people everywhere. Afterwards, wherever the depleted uranium firing had been concentrated, there were cancer epidemics among Iraqi civilians living nearby. In the ten years since then, sanctions, polluted water and depleted uranium together have killed somewhere between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 Iraqi civilian people. At least 600,000 of the dead are children. Cancer rates have quadrupled in areas of southern Iraq bombed by the American and British state terrorists. Since it began, thousands of Iraqi babies have been born with horrible birth defects. This is something that has never before been seen in Iraq .

Over the course of only 43 days and nights, approximately 62,000-80,000 air-delivered cluster bombs were dropped on the Iraqi people by the American-led state terrorists. In addition, 10,000 MLRS rockets and 100,000 “Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munition” artillery shells were fired. All this translates to about 24-30 million “sub munitions” or bomblets. Assuming a dud rate of 5%, it is estimated that the number of Dangerous land-mine cluster bomblets lying on or just under the surface of the ground in Iraq and Kuwait would be from 1.2 to 1.5 million. At least. In the desert, however, the percentage of these duds rose to 30%. So the number of unexploded ordnance still lying in wait for unsuspecting Iraqi children and civilian people could be as high as 7 to 9 million bomblets. A Human Rights Watch report says that of the estimated 24 to 30 million bomblets dropped during the Desert Storm terror campaign, the 1.2 to 1.5 million (at least) that did not immediately explode led to the bloody deaths of 1,220 Kuwaiti and 400 Iraqi people - mostly children - and over 2,500 maimed. And that was in just the first two years after the end of the “war.” So the American/British systematically targeted Iraq 's civilian infrastructure. Schools, hospitals, factories and every industry connected to food production, water purification and irrigation were targeted for destruction. U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots destroyed a baby formula plant, food warehouses, pharmaceutical plants, fertilizer plants, pesticide plants, storage facilities, refrigeration facilities, electrical generation and communication plants and every single grain silo in the country. All these were destroyed in order to intensify the impoverishing effect of the sanctions. In the process, U.S. and British pilots slaughtered at least 200,000 Iraqi men, women and children. And of course all these murdered human beings were dismissed by the Pentagon as “collateral damage.” In the 10 years since that carnage, the United Nations estimates that over one million Iraqi civilians – including 600,000 children below the age of five - have died as a result of American sanctions alone. One of the most important strategies of the 1991 terror-campaign against the civilian Iraqi people was the bombing of numerous water-purification plants. After that, the American sanctions prevented Iraqis from getting enough replacement parts to repair most of the plants.

So, just as the evil U.S. and British governments planned, the lack of clean drinking water in Iraq has caused a massive human catastrophe. It is contaminated water, more than anything else, that is killing Iraqi babies and small children, by the thousands, every month. Because they are the most vulnerable they are dying from diarrhea and dysentery primarily, and also diseases such as typhoid, hepatitis, cholera and polio - all caused by bacteria and viruses within the contaminated water. And just to make the whole diabolical scheme complete, the American sanctions also prevent the Iraqis from acquiring sufficient medicine to treat these deadly diseases. In an interview of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on CBS's 60 Minutes, correspondent Lesley Stahl asked her if the death of these 600,000 Iraqi children was “worth it.” Albright's reply:

“...we think the price is worth it.” General Colin Powell when asked about the number of Iraqi people who were slaughtered by Americans in the 1991 “Desert Storm” terror campaign: “It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in.” “If they turn on the radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs [surface-to-air missiles]. They know we own their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way they live and talk.

And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need.” U.S. Brig. General William Looney Washington Post, August 30, 1999 - referring, in reality, to the brutal mass

• murder of hundreds of civilian Iraqi men, women and children during 10,000 sorties by American/British.

PALESTINE :

Since September 29, 2000 the Israeli Army, together with violent gangs of Israeli “settlers,” have launched a massive military assault on the Palestinian people. In this latest onslaught the Israelis have murdered over 600 people so far, including many children, and injured over 15,000, many severely Of these 15,000 people, over 1000 have sustained serious physical or neurological injuries requiring long-term health care. The Israelis have surrounded all Palestinian villages and blocked all exits, refusing to allow those with severe injuries to get medical help outside. Meanwhile the Israeli Army fires into the villages with missiles from Cobra helicopter gunships and with shells and heavy-gauge ammo from tanks.

Israeli invaders of the West Bank , who are given the misleading name of “settlers,” actually live in hilltop fortresses above many of the Palestinian villages. From these fortresses the “settlers” fire at will down on the unarmed Palestinian people below. In addition to murdering people, the Israeli military is extensively targeting infrastructure, with the intention of destroying the Palestinian economy. Under the guise of “retaliation,” “destroying sniper hiding places” or “protecting Israeli settlers,” Israeli helicopter gunships have fired missiles into Gaza TV studios, factories, office suites, police stations and administrative centers of the Palestinian Authority, destroying them all.

VIETNAM :
American Genocide of the Vietnamese People, 1945-1974 “I would like to say that several months ago in Detroit we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia. They told stories that at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam, in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.”

John Kerry Navy lieutenant, leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 1971 During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the number of murderous U.S. military personnel invading Vietnam jumped from 23,000 in 1963 to 184,000 in 1966. During 13 years of America's war against the people of Vietnam 8000,000 Tons of bombs (like Napalm and cluster bombs) and defoliants (Agent Orange) were dropped in total - and at least 3 MILLION Vietnamese people were slaughtered. During the Vietnam Genocide there was even an official CIA program of systematic terror, torture and mass-murder called Operation Phoenix.

CAMBODIA :
The direct American genocide of the Cambodian people lasted from 1969 to 1975. After that the Khmer Rouge, America 's covert clients, took over the job. Estimated civilian deaths:

2,000,000 - 2,500,000 people From the U.S. Air Force carpet
• bombing and the Khmer Rouge combined.

From Derailing Democracy by Dave McGowan:

Not content with the destruction being wrought upon Southeast Asia, the U.S. began a massive covert bombing campaign against Cambodia , resulting in famine, economic chaos, and a staggeringly high death toll. The desperate conditions created by the bombing set the stage for the Rise to power of the Khmer Rouge, resulting in yet another round of death and destruction for the besieged country.

>From Rogue State by William Blum:

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Cambodian Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret “carpet bombings” of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in 1970.

This was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years of American bombing had caused Cambodia 's traditional economy to vanish. The old Cambodia had been destroyed forever.

Incredibly, the Khmer Rouge were to inflict even greater misery upon this unhappy land. And to multiply the irony, the United States supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese.

LAOS :
The United States Air Force dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes for nine years on the people of Laos, from 1965 to 1973 - over 2,000,000 tons. This was some of the heaviest aerial bombing in world history. Estimated civilian deaths: 500,000 people The United States dropped an estimated 285 million cluster bomblets all over Southeast Asia during the course of the Vietnam War - seven bomblets for every man, woman and child. By 1973 it was estimated that there were at least nine million unexploded bomblets still lying on Laotian territory. As much as half a million tons of unexploded ordnance (primarily cluster-bombs) remains littered all over the Laotian countryside - 35 years later. Every year, throughout all these past 35 years, hundreds of innocent Laotian children and civilian people are murdered or maimed by American cluster-bombs. Bombs dropped by United States Air Force crews.

>From Rogue State by William Blum:

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The Laotian left, led by the Pathet Lao, tried to effect social change peacefully, making significant electoral gains and taking part in coalition governments. But the United States would have none of that. The CIA and the State Department, through force, bribery and other pressures, engineered coups in 1958, 1959 and 1960. Eventually, the only option left for the Pathet Lao was armed force. The CIA created its infamous “Arme Clandestine”- totaling 30,000, from every corner of Asia - to do battle, while the US Air Force, between 1965 and 1973, rained down more than two million tons of bombs upon the people of Laos, many of whom were forced to live in caves for years in a desperate attempt to escape the monsters falling from the sky. After hundreds of thousands had been killed, many more maimed, and countless bombed villages with hardly stone standing upon stone, the Pathet Lao took control of the country, following on the heels of events in Vietnam.

KOREA :
Between 1950 and 1953 the greatest devastation was of course inflicted upon the civilian people of North Korea . The United States Corporate Mafia Government and military were terribly frustrated by the heroic determination of the Korean people and their Chinese allies to be free of American domination. To teach them the “virtues” of the American way, the Pentagon began a deliberate campaign of bloody genocide from the air and on the ground beginning in June 1950, using 20 times more napalm against the Korean people than it used in World War II. It was during the Korean Genocide that American military personnel first started using the term “****.” Many subhuman Americans felt it was okay to slaughter Korean children and rape Korean women because they were all just “gooks.” This sort of bestial racism is a tradition in the bloodthirsty United States military. War criminals always attempt to justify their own evil inhumanity by imagining their victims as being less than human. By the end of America's genocidal assault nearly 3 million civilian people in North Korea had died horribly, either directly from American bombing and massacres or from war-related causes such as starvation and disease. The events in Sinchon County are a typical example of American war crimes in Korea .

SINCHON:
Sinchon was considered a Communist stronghold when American troops occupied the town in September 1950. By the time a North Korean and Chinese counter-offensive was able to drive them out in early December 1950, racist American troops had already managed to mass-murder 35,383 people- one out of every four of the county's 140,000 inhabitants. To this day a local museum carefully chronicles the extent of U.S. war crimes in Sinchon: Americans burned 5,484 dwellings and destroyed 618 factories, public buildings and irrigation facilities, committing the cold-blooded murder of tens of thousands of people in the process. Then, when American troops were forced to retreat, they took revenge on women and children. In order to make the world safe for democracy, American troops murdered 900 helpless civilian people in an air-raid shelter by pouring gasoline into the shelter's ventilation hole and setting it on fire.

In Wonam-ri , North Korea , American troops locked 502 women and their children in two storehouses and then burned them all alive too. This was done in December 1950, while American politicians and military leaders preached from every pulpit about the terrible threat of “Godless Communism.”

“No refugees to cross the front line. Fire everyone trying to cross lines.” 8 th Cavalry Regiment communications log two days before the No Gun Ri massacre. “American soldiers played with our lives like boys playing with flies.” Chun Choon-ja - a 12-year-old Korean girl in 1950 survivor of the No Gun Ri massacre

2006-06-16 03:12:20 · 20 answers · asked by Armaggedon_Amateur 1

Is it a sin? I heard that all religions say that having sex before marriage is a sin. Let's say that maybe almost all people in Europe and USA have had sex before marriage, then why do they still celebrate Christmas? Why do they want to marry in a church, in front of a priest, and hoping that God will bless them? I know my question sounds ridiculous, but I just want to know your opinion (I'm just 17). Thanks ...

2006-06-16 03:10:12 · 33 answers · asked by renee 1

He loved one of the disciples and according to xtians it was not Mary Magdalene and it was probably John.

Jesus also said "It is not what goes into a man's mouth that defiles him..." to what exactly was Jesus referring?

There are a lot of sexual references in the Bible when referring to "God", look at the Burning Bush, obviously gonorreah.

2006-06-16 03:09:42 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I would like to get into the ministry and eventually pastor my own church. What steps do I need to take to begin this journey?

2006-06-16 03:08:39 · 12 answers · asked by tjjone 5

Earlier this year the Vatican issued an order of sorts barring gay men from Ordination. This was a reaction to the several priests who have molested young boys, often altar servers over the years. I am not talking about them.

There hundreds if not thousands of priests, bishop's and relegios out there who are gay and you will never hear about them, but the World Press is out to make all priests look unworthy.

Although I am not attached to Rome, but am from an Independant Jurisdiction, I have seen many RC Priests, who have never done anything to anyone that have felt like they are not worth anything for all the service rendered over thier years.

If your going to pick up the anti-gay banner don't answer this question.

2006-06-16 03:07:25 · 11 answers · asked by Bishop David F. Milne DD 3

I've seen that as a few people's professed beliefs, and I'm confused as to how that's possible....The definition of agnostic is One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism (the dictionary says it...not me)....GOD BLESS YOU ANYWAYS

2006-06-16 03:06:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-16 03:06:56 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why do christians want to make it against the law to do things they have religious problems with? Why do you want to restict the freedoms of people? Why force your religion on others? Why would a gay marriage effect you personally? Better way to sum it up, why can't you mind your own life, and practice your religion, and leave us out of it?

2006-06-16 03:06:04 · 11 answers · asked by Arcturus R 3

2006-06-16 02:59:04 · 13 answers · asked by sassy 1

that would imply that god did not make us perfect.
that god actually created an unperfect thing on this earth and with that he is not perfect because he did so.

people say that we have to reach for perfectness because we are unperfect and sinners - but aren't we all perfect from beginning on? even though we do things that are judged by others to be bad....who is there to judge besides god?

2006-06-16 02:57:14 · 24 answers · asked by 42 6

if so praise God who is lord of heaven and earth
AMEN

2006-06-16 02:55:33 · 33 answers · asked by waz with that 2

Maybe Mohammad was right with the whole 72 virgins thing.

2006-06-16 02:54:07 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-16 02:53:59 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Jacob didn't know about. Were they keepsakes from the past or
religious and meaningful somehow with affiliation to God?

2006-06-16 02:52:09 · 4 answers · asked by sheree 2

2006-06-16 02:49:34 · 23 answers · asked by chigby 2

when I added 2 and 2, I got 5!!!!
It's a miracle, right?
Haha, I proved that God exists, and you stink, haha!
Praise Jewsus, and the evanjelicul cherch!

2006-06-16 02:47:54 · 19 answers · asked by Lil OL REBORN 2

I was curious as to how jesus can be the holyghost?. (when jesus and moses together met the holyghost and god on a the mountains towards the promised land of asia, and god said to jesus not to go into the promised lands of asia as it is for the people to discover).

2006-06-16 02:44:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I named my elephant after something in the bible, but forgot it.
Do you know what it was, what would you name an elephant from the bible?

2006-06-16 02:43:30 · 9 answers · asked by Lil OL REBORN 2

2006-06-16 02:34:45 · 14 answers · asked by faith m 1

Why did God/Jesus need to go through all the hoops (Immacuate Deception) to have a child, when He could have just played in the dirt like He did before?

2006-06-16 02:32:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

You are either a Christian and believe in the word of God as defined in the Bible, totally, or you are like the rest of us.. Non-Believers. I think most religious people are Humanists like me, but want to hang on to spurious books and creeds that they cannot prove. What do you think?

2006-06-16 02:25:13 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous

If she likes me to be fair skin guy i'll do it im sick of being taunted everytime about my skin colour..isnt it fair

2006-06-16 02:20:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-16 02:20:41 · 12 answers · asked by sceptic 2

i have not heard peaople praying with the blood of jesus what do u do it 4? what do u say? all imfomation possible please noone who wants to attack a christian.

2006-06-16 02:18:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-16 02:17:31 · 23 answers · asked by man of ape 6

What makes you proud to be a Christian? How does Christianity effect your life? Is there ever thought of leaving Christianity?

2006-06-16 02:16:39 · 18 answers · asked by Umm Ali 6

Is there any scientific proof that if I believe in Jesus I go to heaven after I die? If no, then would it be religious faith?

Is there any scientific proof that if I die nothing happens? If no, then would the believe that nothing happens be one of philosophical faith?

That there are differences in this faith, and degrees of this faith, but that both are believes that have no basis in something that is scientifically provable, this has been my thought for a day.

2006-06-16 02:15:35 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-16 02:11:29 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous