Would You Question Your Beliefs.. . .. If Those Beliefs Were In Agreement With Terrorists or Anarchists ?

Question

If your belief system seemed to be the same as the majority of atheists, agnostics, anarchists, and terrorists. . . ... .wouldn't that be TIME to reassess your belief system ?

If I found myself on the same side of the fence with the aforementioned groups. . . . ..I'd definitely take a good long look at what my beliefs REALLY STOOD FOR .

What about you ?

I suggest the 'Closest star in our galaxy' and 'the mixed up person' READ the question again . You're waaaaaaaaaay off !!!

To answer some of the questions ... .. Personally, I don't want to agree with the mistakes of the aforementioned groups . I did not say they were equal groups of equal fault and nonsense . Some carry more than others .

To the person born in 1967 - Right is right and wrong is wrong . That's black and white . And that is one of the foundational disagreements we have with Liberals . You, like them, see everything as negotiable and acceptable, with all things being GRAY .

Answer 1

I rarely ever get to beliefs / values. I can't get these Liberals to agree on the FACTS. It's not like arguing with someone who thinks DiMaggio was a better hitter than Williams, the .406 year notwithstanding - it's like arguing with someone who, even after you send him to a dozen sports stats sites, refuses to accept that Williams did in fact hit .406 in 1941.

Answer 2

well if you make changes based on the beliefs of terrorists (i have no problem with atheists or agnostics) then you would be allowing terrorists to DICTATE to you how you should behave.

perhaps the terrorists are lying about what they believe just so weak people like you will take the opposite side.

or it could be that those who all of those people disagree wtih are so roundly WRONG that literally everyone in the world disagrees with them.

sometimes it takes a little moral courage to actually have faith in the conviction of your beliefs and not change your mind to just go along with what you perceive the crowd to want you to do.

the very thought as you have stated it, is grade school logic.

have a little moral courage in your own beliefs and don't fall for the orwellian propaganda of the lunatic politicians like carl rove.

i would also suggest to you that america has advanced beyond this sort of mindless 'kill em all and let god sort it out' mentality.

americans don't want this war and it's high time that the radical right wing politicians in this nation remembered that they work for us no the other way around.

bush needs to get his head together over this or he will be impeached.

it's as simple as that.

hope this helps...

Answer 3

First of all, why do you lump atheists and agnostics in the same group as the terrorists? In case you haven't noticed, most terrorists are VERY religious, so a lack of faith isn't exactly their problem. Also, you may find this hard to believe, but there are actually a lot of atheists and agnostics who are nice, morally upstanding people. If you bothered to get to know one, you might learn that. By the way, are you trying to imply that liberals think like terrorists and anarchists do?

Answer 4

the authentic tale of 9/11 will not in any respect study because we do not have truthfful human beings in our authorities. i quite do not imagine it became an attempt to "make Bush seem undesirable" because he does quite nicely on his personal. That Bush is nicely linked with the Saudis is not any secret and there is continuously a chance that he felt the price of persons demise in 9/11 may help him attain his conflict he needed at any value. It became nicely interior the planning lengthy earlier 9/11. He definately capitalized on the phobia human beings had after 9/11 to get his conflict going. i do not imagine we are able to ever comprehend the entire actuality of what occurred on that one. the entire element has countless holes interior the reason. i won't be able to assert there turned right into a conspiracy yet back, i won't be able to assert for certain there became not one.

Answer 5

My beliefs come from wanting to know all available facts about a given situation or issue. Only after ascertaining every bit, every facet, every nuance available to me about that issue, do I try to render what I hope to be a well informed opinion.

This is not meant as an attack, although it will be construed by some as just that, what really turns me off is people in Yahoo Answers who say they are with the Republican Party, then proceed to use labels, especially labels with a high negative emotional index, to describe people with whom they disagree. I see a lot of "Libtard" comments, alot of "LIEberal" comments, etc. I am a registered Republican, I voted for Bush in 2000, but not in 2004, and I think the only reason some people in here use labels is because they can't justify their opinions with facts, and saying, "because that's the way I feel" has no legitimacy during a debate of ideas.

I dont agree with the reasons we went into Iraq against the whole world's wishes, and NO, I don't do things to please the world at the expense of the US, but WITH UN approval we have LEGITIMACY for conducting the Iraqi invasion. Without the credibility of a UN (or least a COUPLE other countries, like Russia and China) saying "Go Ahead", it doesn't look like we're invading for a good reason (if no one else in the world can SEE it's a good reason), we never stood a chance of victory in Iraq. If the invasion was never about oil (a point Im not necessarily willing to stipulate), then it had to be about toppling a dictator and winning the "hearts and minds" of the Iraqis.

Are we accomplishing the "Hearts and Minds" part, in Iraq? It doesn't seem to me we are. If we were, there would be a LOT less people in Baghdad (or the rest of Iraq) willing to strap themselves up with 100 lbs of dynomite and walk into a US military compound.
The US is spending BILLION$ in Iraq, not just on the military but on the largest US Embassy in the world, and no one in the non-military part of Baghdad has electricity or running water. THis is NOT the way to win herts and minds.
To the average Iraqi, this is exactly what they feared when the US first invaded: "Now that theyre HERE we will NEVER get them to go." Which is why you have an insurgency. They do not want a permanent, or even a long temporary contingent of US forces in their land. And then when they hear about a "Troop surge", well they get even more afraid, which causes MORE young men and women to strap themselves up with 100 lbs of etc etc....

But Im WAY off the topic here. Let me put this into terms we can both understand:

There's this country, where men are in charge and women are subservient and treated as less than second class citizens. INtolerance is very high, anyone of a different race or religion is persecuted, even killed for their beliefs. Due to their enormous wealth, fondness for going everywhere armed to the teeth, are mostly uneducated and have a huge potential for criminal activity, the rest of the world views them pretty much with mistrust and suspicion.
To add to the world's trepidation, they erupt into a civil war, with different chunks of the country wanting to sede from the whole, to become countries unto themselves. Sometimes members of the same family kill each other over the ideals being fought for in this bloody civil conflict.

Of course, Im not talking about Iraq, I'm describing America during the 1860's. How do you think our great grandfathers would have felt if theyre fighting to free slaves (or keep them, whatever side your family was on) and Germany or England invaded to make them stop killing each other? Threw Lincoln out of the White House? Completely disrupted the US? Destroyed our cities, buildings, bridges, houses, hospitals, schools, killed or children, raped our women, kicked in our doors looking for "insurgents" and then started building the biggest German Embassy on the planet in Washington DC? What would you do?

Dont simply dismiss this by saying,"it could never happen". It happened in Iraq: It can happen anywhere.

So what WOULD you do? Would you start learning German to suck up to your new masters, or would you grab your hunting rifle and do a little Freedom Fighting?

Answer 6

Actually I'm Agnostic, but that doesn't mean I am a bad person or believe in harming others that don't believe how I do. What is the problem with that. And how does my beliefs get me lumped in with Anarchists and Terrorists? I would like to hear a good explantion for that.

Just becuase someone doesn't agrre with you doesn't automatically make them wrong.

Answer 7

It is uncomfortable for me as a liberal sometime to see that most people who agree with me that day care is horrible for children are conservatives. But, then I realize that being in lockstep with any one group would mean I wasn't thinking, right.

It is always time to assess your beliefs. But whether other people also believe them is irrelevant to their legitimacy. You're making the appeal to authority logical fallacy in reverse. And a logical fallacy is not an avenue for reflection, but a dead end.

Answer 8

terrorists of the muslim faith are the ones we are currently fighting. Terorists of the christian faith were the ones bombing abortion clinics. Those people did not persuade me to stop being christian. They also didn't persuade me to hate all muslims, because things are not just black and white in this world. The belief that they are is what leads us to unwinnable wars. Perhaps that should be changing your mind...

Answer 9

Since a number of the Founders were atheists and agnostics, I think you should reevaluate your patriotism.

Yep - the world is black and white to fundies, and that's why fundies make lousy human beings - and even worse patriots.

Answer 10

What's wrong with anarchy? I think it'd be a darn sight better than what we've already seen under both Dems AND Rep's!

Answer 11

If my beliefs were in agreement with yours, I'd reassess myself and then cut my throat.