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Now at the risk of being once again accused of taking the moral high ground I really do have better things to do than remonstrate with superhero scourgebag and his sideflick wussjester and would advocate that they take off their jaggy nettle underpants and try to walk lightly upon the ground because their present routine is rather tedious.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieDo you have any evidence of the stuff you accused divegeester of on the previous page?
Now at the risk of being once again accused of taking the moral high ground I really do have better things to do than remonstrate with superhero scourgebag and his sideflick wussjester and would advocate that they take off their jaggy nettle underpants and try to walk lightly upon the ground because their present routine is rather tedious.
Originally posted by FMFTake it to the Spirituality Forum, Scourgey!
What purpose do your Christian beliefs serve, then, if they do not afford you any "moral high ground" in your dealings with non-Christians and Christians you have demonstrated contempt for?
This is the second time (in less than 12 hours) you've tried to turn this into a religious argument. Have you forgotten where you are?
Who is Forum?
Originally posted by FMFYes I proved it at the time because I had the entire original article and your sideflick could tell me nothing about its contents.Now if I may make a suggestion why dont you scourge yourself for with every post you make autumn draws closer and closer.
Do you have any evidence of this?
Originally posted by robbie carrobieOn which thread did you "prove" this?
Yes I proved it at the time because I had the entire original article and your sideflick could tell me nothing about its contents.Now if I may make a suggestion why dont you scourge yourself for with every post you make autumn draws closer and closer.
Originally posted by FMFI did not mean to say I was joking around when creating that thread. No, far from it. I was motivated by the picture of the chap in England walking down the street covered in blood carrying a butchers knife who had just killed an Englishman in the name of Allah.
Tell whodey about it. He was the one who wanted to discuss whether his question about Islam and mental illness was fair or not. I was pointing out to him that him joking around on serious matters might not be the best way for him to get the things he wants to discuss taken seriously.
Originally posted by whodeyBut if you've diagnosed "mental illness" as being behind the murder, what is the relevance of the religious affiliation? If the killer is sane and murders someone for political or religious purposes then it is surely terrorism and cold blooded homicide.
I did not mean to say I was joking around when creating that thread. No, far from it. I was motivated by the picture of the chap in England walking down the street covered in blood carrying a butchers knife who had just killed an Englishman in the name of Allah.
But if the killer is, in fact, insane and murders someone, then surely the insanity will mean that there is some degree of diminished responsibility. If this is so, then whether the killing is carried out for political or religious purposes, or for revenge, or in the course of a robbery, or because of racism, or a messy divorce, or is simply random and purely psychopathic, or whatever perceived "cause", the insanity will be the key to it.
If "the chap in England walking down the street covered in blood carrying a butchers knife who had just killed an Englishman" was insane, as you suggest, then whether he used the butcher's knife because his wife divorced him, or because he'd lost his job, or he was in the manic phase of his manic depression, or he did it "in the name of Allah", I don't see how it really alters or affects the fact that his victim lay dead and the perpetrator was insane.
If "the chap in England walking down the street covered in blood carrying a butchers knife who had just killed an Englishman" was sane, then you have a cold blooded terrorist murder on your hands.
I'd be very wary of explaining away the behaviour of the guy with the butcher's knife as being a victim of "mental illness" unless you are sure it's the case. Until it's shown to be so, we should treat what he did as a calculated terrorist atrocity.