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"Levy Oates" |
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01 Aug 2004 02:25:33 PM |
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Bomb blasts rock Iraqi churches |
OK. I'm about as uncompromising an atheist as you're ever likely to meet, but
even I, in my very worst nightmare, would never dream of attacking people while
they worshipped their imaginary friend, or under any other circumstances for
that matter.
What is wrong with people who can do something like this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3526084.stm
Bombs have gone off near four churches in the Iraqi capital and one in the
northern city of Mosul, police say.
At least 10 people are reported killed and dozens of others injured in what
seems to be a new tactic by insurgents.
The first blast occurred outside an Armenian church in Baghdad, and three other
churches were hit soon after in what looks like an orchestrated attack.
A blast was reported around the same time in Mosul, where a police station was
bombed earlier in the day.
Witnesses said a car bomb detonated outside an Armenian church as an evening
service was getting under way.
It blew out stained glass windows, and scattered pieces of hot metal across the
street. The wreckage of at least three burned out cars was left in its wake.
"I saw injured women and children and men, the church's glass shattered
everywhere. There's glass all over the floor," Juliette Agob, who was inside the
church at the time, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
Attack targets
Ten minutes later, as the emergency services raced to the scene, a second blast
went off outside a Syrian Catholic church some 400 metres (yards) from the first
church.
An ambulance driver said two people had been killed.
IRAQ'S CHRISTIANS
Used to number 1 million
Now estimated at 650,000 - about 3% of population
Main communities: Chaldean Catholics, Assyrian
Other rites include: Armenian, Syrian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Anglican
Mainly live in Kirkuk, Irbil, Mosul, Baghdad
At around the same time, a suspected car bomb went off outside a church in the
northern city of Mosul.
"It's a crime. It's Sunday, we were at mass. There were a lot of women and
children," Bishop Raphael Kutami at the Syrian church was quoted by AFP news
agency as saying.
"There are so many injured and we don't know how many. We were coming out of the
church," when the bomb exploded, said another priest at the same church.
The BBC's Peter Greste in Baghdad says that until now there has been no
significant attacks on Iraqi's Christian minority, although they were becoming
increasingly concerned about the possibility of violence.
Many Christians run Iraq's alcohol shops, which have been subjected to recent
attacks.
Earlier on Sunday, at least five people were killed and some 50 injured when a
car bomb went off near a police station in Mosul.
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Archdeacon Levy Oates
On behalf of the Prophet Eric Peabody (pbuh)
Basingstoke, England
http://www.angelfire.com/alt/bumblism/
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Bomb blasts rock Iraqi churches |
02 Aug 2004 01:47:56 AM |
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In article <2kgqg01191snic9i1bthe08p1ngt6kln2j@4ax.com>,
Levy Oates <levy_oates@hotmail.com> wrote:
OK. I'm about as uncompromising an atheist as you're ever likely to meet, but
even I, in my very worst nightmare, would never dream of attacking people
while
they worshipped their imaginary friend, or under any other circumstances for
that matter.
You wouldn't, I wouldn't, but religions have been doing it to each
other for thousands of years. Why should they stop now?
What is wrong with people who can do something like this?
They traded their common sense for something that someone told them
was written in a moldy old book many centuries ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3526084.stm
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
-The ability to change one's mind, ideas, and opinions when confronted with
new facts is the sign of the rational and intelligent. The inability to do
so is the hallmark of the dimwitted and the fanatic. This applies not only
to science and philosophy, but also to politics.-
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| User: "Kevin Anthoney" |
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| Title: Re: Bomb blasts rock Iraqi churches |
01 Aug 2004 03:29:56 PM |
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Levy Oates wrote:
OK. I'm about as uncompromising an atheist as you're ever likely to meet,
but even I, in my very worst nightmare, would never dream of attacking
people while they worshipped their imaginary friend, or under any other
circumstances for that matter.
What is wrong with people who can do something like this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3526084.stm
Didn't Bush say he was going to start a crusade? Looks like he's finally
got something right!
--
Kevin Anthoney
kanthoney[a]dsl.pipex.com
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