CS, my dad likes your sense of humor.
Your dad sounds like a wiseeeee, wiseeeeee man.
Yeah, only thing I regret is that he was so active in the 60's and is now just disappointed and frustrated about what's happening in the world that he's no longer active. Ah, well, he's 64.
"Ah, well, he's 64"
Careful there! I just turned 61, yesterday.
Happppyyyyyyyyy belated birthday Tony!
Molly, just remind him how long it took people to get active and protest Vietnam--8 years?
Thanks, CS.
Typical robertson reaction .
God is part of the cultural aspect that encompasses the whole American civilization. It is a cultural aspect because people mechanized these words in their language to overcome their fears or whenever reality cannot be explained rationally. The shift started since 1957 and it is normal for them, it belongs to their culture, it only depends on the amount of Faith* believed in God. The problem happens when they use these words on other different societies: for the hardliners such as the rapture, these people believe to the coming of God as a savior, because they think they are the chosen ones, and in other muslim societies, it has the same thing too (mahadism in Suddan): Mahdi means liberator or the chosen. I think it is typical to Suddan and not the Talebans from Afghanistan (Ben Laden spent some time in Suddan). Correct Tony?
A Muslim is a Muslim right? So if a Muslim is a Muslim, then a Christian is a Christian too? But we allow intellectual classification. Allowing intellectual classification through different interpretations is legitimate, because we need to reason, but it is in the West the opened path of politicians waging wars. In the Q'ran it is said "a Muslim should not denounce a Muslim". In the Bible it is the same thing, except the schism in the Christian religion happened since the XXth century. Can we say a schism happened in the Muslim religion too? I always wondered about this question. People usually tend to say it did not happen, I am not quiet sure but I would be more apt to balance "reason" on the same platter in the name of universal values.
*Faith is irrational so we can’t weigh it but there are correlations to understand their place inside the mind of a Human Being and statistics are part of the correlation to understand Faith. It has been proven that older people do not have the same amount of Faith then younger people. I had read a mindblowing report about that, … and I’ve been trying to find the link but I can’t find it ahem. In the meantime you can check out this article that will show you that Faith is stronger in the US than in any countries, therefore we are coming back to my little introduction, God is part of the American cultural society (under God we trust). I think that religion should be a personal matter and nothing else.
They chose to do it this way in their society, let’s not bother other people to do what they want for their own society without doing proselitism.
http://www.skeptic.com/
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Definition of proselitism: Religious conversion is the adoption of new religious beliefs that differ from the convert's previous beliefs; in some cultures (e.g. Judaism) conversion also signifies joining an ethnic group as well as adopting that group's religious beliefs. Conversion requires internalization of the new belief system.
Eid milaad saeed Tony!
Steven Rix,
Yes, Bin Laden was in Sudan for a while. The idea of, and the belief in the Mahdi is of course central to the Shiites. They believe that he will return and lead the faithful in the final battle of "good versus evil." It is a similar idea to the second coming of Jesus.
Steven Rix,
Thank you very much! I did not know that you knew some Arabic.
How are you feeling?
I am doing very good Tony and yourself?
Yes I know a little bit of arabic, un chouya only 
it's 2 15 am good nite. i was watching documentaries.
Sorry, Tony, I was just trying to excuse my dad. 
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