Sadaam Captured Alive

[BigJustinW]

Originally Posted by Rndm_Perfection

Yaaay... religious remarks.

I'll try responding to this from a few viewpoints.


Christian:
Jesus is a very, very important part of our religion. It matters not how he died, but the fact that he did die for mankind's sake. He was the ultimate martyr.

Skeptic:
What makes you sure he was nailed to a cross? The bible wasn't written by the hand of God, but rather by humans. Humans definately listen to the will of God, but as you can see by the actions of some "Christians", they do not yield to the word of God entirely. There could've been some glorifying of Jesus' death.

Non-Christian:
How would that be possible? Man created Jesus as the ultimate martyr and role model. He could not "sin"... he was a flawless quasi-human. When designing Jesus, man made sure he could create the biggest impact possible. Fiction is created a way for a reason. Perhaps this should not be discussed in this forum.

Christian "Scientist" (aka: uncertain but wishes for "accuracy"):
There's a fairly good chance that being hung on a cross wasn't as obscure as you imagine at the time. Mayhaps regular "thieves" would be nailed to a cross... in fact, weren't there others with him nailed to a cross? Beheading, I imagine, wasn't a very common method of execution at the time.

Choose your pick =¬Þ, I really don't care which one you imagine I'd say. Based on my mood, I could've straight out said any of them and "meant" it.

I agree with all four of those reactions to some extent... but the fact is if others were killed on the cross the evidence was supressed, and apparently Jesus was the only one to get the nails put through his palms and the big nail through both of his legs.... if the others did, like I said before, evidence was held back

(I would read and try to find out... but I'm not going to put that much effort into this post )

Oh, and thanks for finding the word for me "martyr"

[Joeiss]

Ya, dropping the A-Bomb in WWII was for the good. The huge sea/land battle in Japan would have left millions upon millions dead. Invading Japan would have been like D-Day multiplied by 27.45.

[ZEROCOOLER]

http://politicalhumor.about.com/libr...shprecious.htm

[thatmariolover]

We definately needed to do something in Japan, but dropping that bomb was a bad idea in my opinion.

In Hiroshima, there were 120,000 casualties. 60,000 of which were deaths. That was out of a population of slightly over 200,000. It was mass murder. It wasn't to get to a specific target, it was just to flex some muscle and get some revenge. We could have done that without killing so many innocents.

That was a good find ZeroCooler. I particularly liked the point this one brought up.

[BigJustinW]

Originally Posted by thatmariolover

We definately needed to do something in Japan, but dropping that bomb was a bad idea in my opinion.

In Hiroshima, there were 120,000 casualties. 60,000 of which were deaths. That was out of a population of slightly over 200,000. It was mass murder. It wasn't to get to a specific target, it was just to flex some muscle and get some revenge. We could have done that without killing so many innocents.

That was a good find ZeroCooler. I particularly liked the point this one brought up.

define "innocent" in a war situation... The only innocent I know are non-supporters of the war... and children. But the powerful contries are the only ones that seem to fight fair anyway.

As fr the Bush thing, remember, the media shows us what they want us to see, and he was showing Osama what he wanted him to see. We won't ever know if he's telling the truth about not worrting about Osama or not.