*Bombing Iran will ignite the fuse of Armageddon!*

Well it could be worse, David G. Iran could get the bomb, in
which case Saudi Arabia will do the same. With those two armed,
every tinpot dictatorship in the ME, will want the same and they
have the oil money to pay for it.

So with a whole host of ME countries, all with their finger on
the nuclear trigger, your armageddon might well happen!

>>Well it could be worse, David G. Iran could get the bomb, in
which case Saudi Arabia will do the same. With those two armed,
every tinpot dictatorship in the ME, will want the same and they
have the oil money to pay for it.<<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGptO6j3G-U

Cheers,

Tony

To put the thinking of Israel and Iran in proper context something that is not mentioned to any great extent in mainstream media is the imagined return of the Twelfth Imam. Google it, for more information.

Geoffrey Robertson made mention of this in his presentation at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention in April this year. The video (number 16) can be viewed here and if not wanting to watch the whole speech, start at 38:46

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7C0CA45F60FD44C7&feature=plcp

David

David G

Never mind, I'm sure Israel won't nuke Iran unless they really deserve it ;-)

Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc

I have frequently drawn people's attention to Geoffrey Robinson's findings on the murder of political prisoners in Iran. I am afraid that when people's minds have been infected with the virus of anti-Semitism the facts don't matter.

For those who are interested Robinson's report is available online here:

http://www.unarts.org/H-II/ref/IMReport1988.pdf

stevenlmeyer,

I know what you mean about the mind virus problem. It is a serious mental health issue. There is, as you say, the selective anti-Semitic virus and then the Islamic, Christian and Jewish viruses of the mind. Of course, there are thousands of others.

One would think that the penny would drop with each person with a virus making them question if their own affinities to unproven concepts might be the result of a similar virus.

Such is the power of these mind viruses that folk are immune to that very logical conclusion.

And before we get the defensive mechanism coming out and blurting that atheists also suffer from a virus, I would ask how something akin to non-stamp collecting can be classed as a virus. It can’t’.

Knowing that such viruses cause incredible amounts of harm and they may end the human race and maybe all biological life, these dreadful thoughts would help in overcoming the viral effects. But, most unfortunately, they don’t.

The only cure seems to be that children should be kept well away from being infected.

David

Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc wrote:

>>And before we get the defensive mechanism coming out and blurting that atheists also suffer from a virus,...>>

Atheists may suffer from all manner of mind viruses. Stalin and Mao are cases in point. I would argue that so is Hitler although he, like Stalin, invoked Christianity when it suited him.

However atheism itself is not a mind virus. One cannot attribute the misdeeds of Mao and Stalin to atheism in the way one can truly say that the murderous mullah regime in Iran is the result of at least one interpretation of Islam.

Please do not try to tell me that being an atheist protects you from mind viruses. They are plenty of non-theistic mind viruses around.

And atheists can be pretty soft-headed. For me the breaking point with the Left came when I witnessed the reaction of so many supposedly atheist lefties to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie. Among those who seemed to blame Rushdie himself for the fatwa were Germaine Greer, John Berger and John Le Carré.

Full disclosure. I am myself an atheist in the sense that I see no evidence for the existence of the sort of deity described in any of the world's holy books. I cannot disprove the existence of some entity that created the universe but I strongly doubt such a being exists. I do not know how the universe came to be, why it exists and whether we are the reason for its existence assuming there is a reason. I do not expect ever to find answers for these questions.