I read an article last weekend that said that a VAST majority of violent religious attacks in the US are carried out by Christians attacking Jews. Why aren't we having a thread about radical Christian terrorism?

There were a few thousand people killed in the WTC attacks. The response was to kill hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan - almost none of whom had anything to do with terrorism. Many of our leaders described these wars in religious terms.

Since the WTC attacks, the Dept of Homeland Security has spent hundreds of billions of dollars protecting us from terrorists. During that time 600,000 Americans have been killed by other Americans with guns. By the usual definition, the NRA is a terrorist organization. So are the governments of the UK and the US. We are the rogue nations.

It is easy to say that the governments of Muslim countries are bad because they kill their own citizens over religious beliefs. The government of the United States has an ever-increasing list of gun laws that make it easier and easier to kill other Americans. Punitive religion-based laws abound here. By the same arguments used against Muslim countries, we have a violent Christian regime in place. It is dedicated to world domination and uses mass killing to achieve its goals.

The United States claims to want peace in the world and is the world's largest manufacturer and seller of weapons of war. We are, by exact definition, war mongers. The UK as well.

Wouldn't it be nice if we stopped worrying about which religion violent, gun-toting people belong to and start worrying more about the fact that they are gun-toting and violent?

John P

P.S. This thread would be a good bit more interesting if MtheGM, Keith of Hertford and Jim Carrol, and the few others who engage with them, would stop talking about each other. Please, please, please stick to the discussion and leave your insults ad name calling out of it. The most effective response to being attacked is no response at all. It takes two to tango. Every time you type a post, please pause before sending it to see if your words are about the subject at hand or if they contain insults directed at another person in the discussion. I don't know if any of you are saying anything pertinent, since you've ensured that I scroll past your posts.