Text 28991, 60 rader
Skriven 2007-06-01 18:07:53 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 28987 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Army ordering ninjas
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John Hull -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 JH> Mimi Gallandt -> John Hull wrote:
 MG>> John Hull -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 JH>>> Mimi Gallandt -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
 MG>>>> VERN HUMPHREY -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:
 VH>>>>>>> They are amazing -- a hispanic lady mentioned how her father had
 VH>>>>> been
 VH>>>>>>> killed by the Ku Klux Klan.  And a guy stood up and said, "Don't
 VH>>>>> YOU
 VH>>>>>>> tell US about the KKK!!"

 VH>>>>>>> I guess she was the wrong race. :-(

 MG>>>>>> Some people are just clueless about the fact that the KKK doesn't
 VH>>>>> limit thei
 MG>>>>>> bigotry and attending violence to *JUST* Black people. Given a
 MG>>>> chance
 VH>>>>> they'd
 MG>>>>>> take you and I and not consider it a bad haul.

 VH>>>>> The Church I attended as a boy, the church my mother was buried
 MG>>>> from,
 VH>>>>> was desecrated and burned by the KKK.  Fortunately, I had no
 MG>>>> family here
 VH>>>>> at the time, and didn't learn about it until long afterwards --
 MG>>>> because
 VH>>>>> I know who did it.

 MG>>>> Willfully desecrating houses of worship is one of the most
 MG>> despicable
 MG>>>> things people can do to a building. It makes me sick.

 JH>>> Its not so much the building as it is the symbolism of trashing
 JH>>> somebody's god.  Buildings can be rebuilt after all.

 MG>> True, but even if you rebuild the building it won't heal the violation
 MG>> of your soul.


 JH> That depends on how tough you are.

IIRC you don't follow a particular religious belief, maybe you simply can't
understand what it does to a believer's soul to have their house of G-d
desecrated. It's a kind of religious rape.

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

mimigal(at)cox.net


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We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their
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