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Originally posted by ianc
Their culture has been steeped in superstition and religion for so long that they can't help but be the way they are. To change this, we need to educate them. As a general rule, the more educated people become, the less of an overarching role religion plays in their lives.
They don't look like they'll change now (and they haven't), but in 10-15 years I'm betting attitudes change somewhat. I feel we can help with this.
ianc
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Well, this is all fine and good, but you've left out three core issues: 1) the agressor as educator; 2) Democracy's at-home failings; 3) what Christianity seeks as its own truth.
How do we, as the educators, appear to the, the wobegone religiously-hazed superstitious? We and our allies bomb their cities, destroy their infrastructure, and push their country into a state reminiscent of warring tribes, and they should be expected to allow us to educate them?
And educate them with what? Democracy? Christianity? All these religiously ignorant middle eastern souls need is a satellite dish and a TV to see democracy in action with examples such as Katrina in New Orleans; a fine display of democratic representation right there.
And our country based on Christian principles is nothing to write from Baghdad about, particularly when we are disallowed civil liberties, are illegally wiretapped, are lied to by our president, and forced in a war that benefits a select few against the larger population. But this pales in comparison to what most probably is seen by Islamics as a simple old school holy war between our God and their Allah where we determine, simply, that we as a Christian-based nation is right, and they as followers of their own god are wrong.