“…success in dividing America like a shovel through a pumpkin” -Pat Condell
"Objects in history may be closer than they appear" – Eeyore for Vlad
"Objects in history may be closer than they appear" – Eeyore for Vlad
“…success in dividing America like a shovel through a pumpkin” -Pat Condell
When King David was walking on the roof of his palace in Jerusalem, he looked down and saw a woman called Bathsheba sunbathing below. She was the wife of Uriah the Hittite, one of his soldiers. David sent for Bathsheba, slept with her, and made her pregnant. Then he summoned her husband Uriah to the palace (he had been fighting with the army at Rabbah). He told him to go back to his own house and sleep with his wife – this way, when Bathsheba’s baby was born, people would believe it to be Uriah’s and not David’s. But for two nights, Uriah refused to sleep in his own house, saying that as his troops were camping in the open, he would not allow himself the luxury of sleeping with his wife at home, so he slept at the palace gate. Even when David made him drunk on a third night, he still refused to go back to his house, and slept in the guard room instead.
@atique
what is your point?
Pat is getting slammed for this video… I tried to defend him but it is to much.
The interesting thing about individuals like Pat Condell is that he doesnt have to be a Christian to be on the same side as Christian Westerners. Of course, his religion is Atheism, and why Atheists haven’t taken their adamacy for “truth in science” to explore the deeper spiritual components of scientific exploration is about as ignorant as the Christians that assert evolution isn’t true. What’s more, I wouldnt consider Pat an enemy wherein I can ascribe the phrase “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Pat is a harmless individual with an opinion that simply lacks God. I have a hard time understanding Atheists’ “passions”, when I really ask a deeper question: Where does their passion come from? If it comes from offense, then offense is nothing more than the product of a perceived threat. No, people like Pat are as harmless as a heel hound, but are good instruments for asserting that this conflict we have with Islam does transcend religion, and affects more than just Christians – Atheists hate them, too.
Pat’s alright! He is on our side regardless of his passion which springs from one knows not where. How can you be passionate about atheism. It is like being passionate about the fact that unicorns do not exist. God does not exist (so he believes) so leave it at that. It is a mystery to me but I still like him lots.
One can be passinate about the gains western civilization has made for individual human rights, and freedom both from tyranical politics as well as tyranicl religious authority.
Pat’s passion comes from the best place. A desire for all humanity to be free to believe and act as they want and not to be able to impose those values they may hold on others.
I will be damned before I will let Muslims, Catholics, Protestants or Jews impose their religious rules and laws on me no matter how strong their convictions. They may hold those views and they may limit themselves to religious dogma but they may not limit me to it.
Want to see passion? Watch what happens the first time I am denied a freedom because it is offensive to some religion. That is itself enough motive.
Western Civilisation is indeed a mighty and beautiful site. Go to Barcelona, Milan and Cologne and see the cathedrals that rise to the blue heavens on a sunny day. Now religion was involved in those projects. That religion was Christianity. And we have not even mentioned the spleandour of St Peters yet.
So Religion is part and parcel of the glory of Western Civilisation. Christian Religion. Pat kinda forgets that sometimes. I think maybe his passion comes from the freedom of life that the West upholds and is now in the process of being denied. He can not bear to have that denied.