2007-01-12 20:03:09 · 10 answers · asked by Not From The Lebanon 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Prove a case against them or let them go.
2007-01-12 20:12:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The correct view on closing the Guantanamo concentration camp has naught to do with atheism or theism. It does, however, bear a similarity to the issue of slavery.
The christians constantly reiterate the false claim that "christianity ended slavery". The reality then, as now, is that those against slavery were mostly christians, but ALL the atheists, and ALL the agnostics, and ALL the jews, etc. were against slavery. Those on the pro-slavery side were 100% christian.
Being in the right is not a matter of whether one has or lacks faith. However, it does take the absolutism of faiths and ideologies to blind people into accepting atrocities as valid strategies. All of the world's atrocities, from the crusades to the inquisition to slavery to witch trials to Nazism to Stalinism were perpetrated by people who were absolutely sure they were right and unwilling to listen to other views. Before 2001, Chicken George and the neo-convicts had already decided to invade Iraq; if that isn't absolutism, what is?
The atheist view on Guantanamo Bay? That other options and due process should have been considered and tried. Our only absolute is that the concentration camp was the wrong idea.
Additional:
Funny thing, "Godless" said, "Prove a case against them or let them go."
Of those held as Guantanamo, more than fifty have already been released and never tried. Add to that the two dozen who have committed suicide out of despair and the four to eight DOZEN who cannot be sent back to their homelands for fear of violence (eg. the Uiguyrs of China), that's more than 100 who will never face trial. And of the other 200 or more, about 50 are children.
What is the number of those kidnapped and held hostage at Guantanamo who have actually been charged with a crime, never mind tried or convicted? ZERO.
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2007-01-13 04:27:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not a atheist so i have no views on Guantanamo
2007-01-13 04:14:46 · answer #3 · answered by akband 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One of the things in a growing number of things that Americans should be ashamed of when they stand in the world's stage.
2007-01-13 04:12:40 · answer #4 · answered by albatros39a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an illegal prison holding people against both American and International law.
It will be a long term embarrassment to the USA.
2007-01-13 04:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by U-98 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i dont think we are going about this in a very mature way. Nor are we setting a very good example to the rest of the world
2007-01-13 04:22:21 · answer #6 · answered by duffmanhb 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Should never have been used. It is a way for the US to perform illegal activities without fear of the law
2007-01-13 04:08:00 · answer #7 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its a nice place for holidays
2007-01-13 04:08:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they're terrorists or involved in terrorism they should get what they deserve
2007-01-13 04:14:57 · answer #9 · answered by IguanaGal 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
don't like the miserable idea either
2007-01-13 04:11:33 · answer #10 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋