First,
Sorry for the false start earlier - bad day!
I meant to say my dictionary gives 'phosporous' as "a highly volatile toxic chemical". Have been pondering all day as to how the use of a 'toxic chemical' in a weapon doesn't add up to 'chemical warfare' - ah well, will get there one day I hope!
Sawzaw,
Fascinating bit of incoherent rhetoric; perhaps you might explain what it has to do with this discussion?
As an atheist with no god, I regard all religions as primitive superstitions, be they priest, vicar, minister, ayatollah, rabbi, Dali Lama.... whatever, led. As far as I am concerned people are free, even welcome to believe what they wish to as long as they confine their activities to their own churches, chapels, mosques, synagogues..... wherever they wish to carry on their practices.
Once they emerge from the confines of these places into the real world and insist on imposing their superstitions on the rest of us, then they become a dangerous, even lethal menace, as is amply demonstrated on a daily basis with car bombs, planes flying into high buildings or the invasion and takeover of a poverty stricken country and the slaughter and ghettoisation of the occupants of that country. The history of the world is covered with oceans of blood shed in the name of one religion or another, Christianity holding its own as one of the front runners.
If I had to choose between the above rhetoric in the name of Allah and the slaughter of innocents by a highly armed, trained and ruthless nuclear power driven by the belief that they are god's chosen people taking their rightful place in 'the promised land' - Tweedledum and Tweedledee, I'd say, closely followed by the mealey-mouths standing on the sidelines cheering on their particular team.
Strip away ALL the religious rhetoric from this question and what you are left with is a highly armed..... etc with imperialist ambitions and the intention to slaughter anybody who gets in their way.
If you are suggestion that your quote, a two thousand year old myth, or any piece of religious nonsense is worth one human life - may your god, whoever he or she is, forgive you.
Jim Carroll