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Vicente says

Let’s make it simple for you bulletdodger,
Here’s 2 news items:
1) 2 soldiers and a contractor were killed in Iraq today…..moving on to sports….,.
2) VIDEO OF AMERICANS WHO WERE TORTURED, BURNED AND LEFT HANGING FROM A BRIDGE
News story #1 won’t generate much heat. News story #2 would probably enrage any who watched it even those who aren’t otherwise disposed to engage in thinking about politics. It would incite the “they’re animals, let’s kill them all with fire” in many. It really costs us almost nothing to treat the dead according to our usual established standards. Changing that so we can…do what? Take revenge on a dead man? Create more enemies? To appease your thirst?
WE are supposed to be more civilized. Better to live up to something than down.
“Eagles are dandified vultures” - Teddy Roosevelt

Vicente, you ended up missing my points while trying to make things simple for me. For the record, I've not suggested that OBLs body be wrapped in bacon, maimed by starving dogs and buried in a pagan cemetery by a gay rabbi on 9/11/11. I think the administration showed genius planning in every aspect of the operation including burial.

My first post in this thread was an attempt to show the absurd logic of the people who might be angered by a disrespectful burial.

I think FunTimes thought that I was being critical of the choice to give a Muslim burial, and went on to assert that OBL does not represent a major religion, and giving him an improper burial "WOULD engage the entire Muslim community."

I don't think it would. It's been reported that some Muslims don't consider OBL a Muslim because he did not follow the peaceful teachings of Islam and some have said he defamed the Muslim religion. Jihadists do consider OBL a true Muslim, and would be angered by a disrespectful handling of his body. So, are we calling him a true Muslim by giving him a proper Muslim burial? Sure. So, should moderate Muslims who don't consider him a Muslim be offended that we buried him like a true Muslim? I think so, but I also think it's better to offend moderate Muslims rather than hot head jihadists who might be moved to action. It's all perfectly ironic to me, a proper Muslim burial right after the civil execution of unarmed Jihadist #1 by the Navy Seals. The Obama administration played it perfectly making everyone as happy as possible given the circumstances.

In any case, it's not all so simple for me.

BD

bulletdodger says

In any case, it’s not all so simple for me.

I expect I'd be buried as a Christian, because I'm sure there's some paper somewhere that says so. I'm not any more, but I'll be dead and it don't matter do it?

Vicente says

bulletdodger says

In any case, it’s not all so simple for me.

I expect I’d be buried as a Christian, because I’m sure there’s some paper somewhere that says so. I’m not any more, but I’ll be dead and it don’t matter do it?
“Eagles are dandified vultures” - Teddy Roosevelt

God I hope to never be buried as a Christian! There's some paperwork somewhere that I got baptized, etc. And there's paperwork proving I'm a Jew and that I've even been a member of several synagogues. Now I'm a Jew going to a Unitarian Universalist Church, they believe in everything and nothing at all.

I should get my paperwork together so I'm not buried next to Christians. Yuck!

(Really Vicente, I do agree with you that it won't matter one bit to me what they do with my body. I won't be inhabiting it anymore.)

What’s the most basic law that cannot be questioned? Is it the Constitution or the Koran?

Either Murphy's law - or whatever law it is that makes dogshit stick like velcro to the bottom of your shoes.

simchaland says

Now I’m a Jew going to a Unitarian Universalist Church, they believe in everything and nothing at all.

"Those that stand for nothing fall for anything."

elliemae says

whatever law it is that makes dogshit stick like velcro to the bottom of your shoes.

I like that one. I don't think it's been claimed so we can name it after you.

Vicente says

elliemae says

whatever law it is that makes dogshit stick like velcro to the bottom of your shoes.

I like that one. I don’t think it’s been claimed so we can name it after you.
“Eagles are dandified vultures” - Teddy Roosevelt

Elliemae's Theorem: The amount of dogshit that sticks to your shoes like velcro is directly proportional to the amount you spent on them.

???? How'm I doing?