2007-12-21 08:01:25 · 14 answers · asked by ronford9 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
"Hi, neighbor!"
-"Hi, neighbor!"
"You should love your neighbor!!"
-"Nahhh, you should like your neighbor!"
"Love him!"
"-Like him!"
"Love!!!!"
-"Like!!!!!"
*Kaboom*
Makes perfect sense to me.
2007-12-21 08:08:31 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Okay lets examine Holy - meaning clean and pure, free from defilement and corruption.
War - meaning, an active struggle between competing entities.
I would say they don't know what "Holy" means.
Because if they did they would understand that a true Holy War is not fought with physical weapons...
2 Corinthians 10:4 - "For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful by God for overturning strongly entrenched things."
Hebrews 4:12 - "For the word of God is alive and exerts power and is sharper than any two-edged sword and pierces even to the dividing of soul and spirit, and of joints and [their] marrow, and [is] able to discern thoughts and intentions of [the] heart. "
Journey Well...
2007-12-21 16:23:59 · answer #2 · answered by Juggernaut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,
The violent Jihadists put moron into oxymoron
Holiness and aggressive violence are mutually exclusive
Murder in the name of God is sacrilege and scandal
and just plain stupid unless the "Holy warriors" are just cynical power-hungry hypocrites
like so many of the atheist Communist leaders were with their'liberating revolutions' that enslaved so many in the name of atheistic "freedom and order and,justice"
2007-12-21 16:05:05 · answer #3 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holy war is not technically an oxymoron.
Holy hell, on the other hand is an oxymoron.
2007-12-21 16:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by ninja chopstick 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where in the Koran or the Bible does it say that you are not to take the Bible literally.
As far as I know, the Bible says that you are to believe and practice EVERY WORD of scripture.
Don't blame extremists for being the only ones who truly believe and practice scripture, just because you do not have the intestinal fortitude or faith to do the same.
2007-12-21 16:11:35 · answer #5 · answered by John Galt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, but you would think they would have got it by now, my favorite was when George bush screwed up and called the war in Iraq a holy war then tryed to back track, don't you just love how religion is starting wars that we are all responsible for?
2007-12-21 16:05:00 · answer #6 · answered by shanobi187 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
nope.
personally i think theyre taking two of the things they love so much and combining them.
firstly i think most "extremists" ar e violent. or at least condone certain amounts of violence.
secondly they love their religion.
maybe its the whole "good vs evil" thing. they like the idea of holy combat....of course whose ever had combatwith a demon (non metaphorically ofcourse) so the idea of actually DOING combat with the things they consider "evil" is the next best thing.
2007-12-21 16:03:45 · answer #7 · answered by johnny.zondo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Pope didn't.
Neither did Bush when he called the present war a Crusade.
2007-12-21 16:04:09 · answer #8 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They don't realize that it's supposed to be metaphorical , not literal . That tends to be a the problem with literalists, in general.
2007-12-21 20:38:07 · answer #9 · answered by mikeinportc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good point
same goes for
Civil War
2007-12-21 16:05:11 · answer #10 · answered by ! 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Very good point. Religion should be nowhere in politics.
2007-12-21 16:05:16 · answer #11 · answered by CynCity 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋