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someone's thoughts on fanaticism
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Posted by daryl on July 05, 2007 @01:36 PM (Reply)
I just watched an absurdly retarded video on youtube, in which an Islamic extremist was lecturing a rather large crowd. I tried to post a reply to it, but apparently youtube has the worst comment system ever: you can only post 500 characters, the video author can moderate your posts, and you can't post links.
it looks like they've covered just about all the bases for suppressing my free speech, short of me defacing the website, atleast. I can't write what I want in a single comment, and even if I segmented it into multiple comments, they probably wouldn't all be approved by the poster of the video, and it would take a huge effort to go back and forth to the page whenever it was convenient for the video poster to admit my comments to the page. finally, I'm also not allowed to just simply link a posting on my website there so that interested readers can be enlightened by my enormously dazzling intellect. that limitation is pretty easily defeated, though, since youtube's horrible programmers don't seem to know much of shit about regular expressions.
so I figured I may as well post my reply here, since I actually took the time to write it, and I don't see any good reason to just let it disappear forever. there aren't any particularly new insights in this, but just precisely because I'm annoyed I've been disallowed from putting my thoughts down, I'm going to exercise my true freedoms to say whatever I want on my own page.
if a piece of machinery of unknown origin and purpose were brought before my eyes, I would not attribute it to an intellgent creator. the watchmaker analogy is retarded and an absolutely weak teleological argument. please read a book other than the Qur'an.
also, whether or not the Qur'an mentions the moon not having its own source of light or the sun rotating about its own axis, what exactly is your point? the Qur'an may or may not say lots of things (and I'm not going to read that garbage to find out), but that has no bearing whatsoever on whether Allah exists.
finally, I'm not even watching the rest of this ridiculous video, but I'd like to say that we did _not_ first know the earth was spherical because of Sir Francis Drake. I'm not even sure that a flat earth was ever really commonly accepted by any society in history. the hypothesis of a spherical earth extends back many millennia, and was not unique (or even distinct) to any one culture. it was empirically proven that the earth was round by Eraosthenes in 276 BCE. get your facts straight, and, again, pick up another book -- preferrably a factual one.
I guess I'd also like to take the time to address the video author's questions as a post-script, if I may:
You don't believe in God?
that's right. I don't believe in god.
Islam provides you the answers.
islam provides the answers to what? I didn't ask islam anything.
Also, do you really think the Islamic Law is barbaric
yes.
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