Althouse: "In a country where we saw buildings knocked down by people who based their destructive impulse on God's will..."

April 25, 2012

"In a country where we saw buildings knocked down by people who based their destructive impulse on God's will..."

"... I do not appreciate this religious symbolism at all."

14 comments:

rhhardin said...: Islam is bad for buildings.; 4/25/12, 1:14 PM
edutcher said...: But Zero is talking to the Tahleebahn.

So the War on Terror is over.; 4/25/12, 1:21 PM
Dante said...: If it weren't religious symbolism but had the same images would it change your acceptance?; 4/25/12, 1:29 PM
Ann Althouse said...: "And anyway, it's free speech. I betcha you'd be quick to defend other expressions as long as they didn't involve religion. A religious hostility has come through your posts lately, including you as a teenager and your daddy."

Disagreeing with speech isn't an argument for censorship. It's more speech. Never forget.

And your attack on my father and distortion of what I've said about him and about religion are really despicable.

Your use of the expression "your daddy" is ugly. It makes you look ugly.; 4/25/12, 1:38 PM
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gerry said...: In Vladivostok, the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition (Assumption) of the Blessed Virgin Mary was blown up on Easter Day 1937.

Not by Islamists. By Communists.

Followers of a fraudulent belief system.; 4/25/12, 1:43 PM
Paddy O said...: You're assuming it's about symbolism and it's about you.

It's not literal but it's certainly not just symbolic.; 4/25/12, 1:43 PM
Amartel said...: File Under:
1. U R Missing The Point
a. People who co-opt religious symbolism to support their personal agenda.
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hhh. Leslyn; 4/25/12, 2:09 PM
FedkaTheConvict said...: To use a religious symbol from the far right, the KKK and cross burnings.

Talk abour rewriting history...; 4/25/12, 2:51 PM
Mary Beth said...: The phrase "your daddy" comes from my tendency to use southern speech patterns, since I lived there 15 years. I also say "mama" and "y'all" and other colloquialisms.

What part of the south?

I've spent my entire life in the southern U.S. and would not refer to the father of someone over the age of six as "your daddy".; 4/25/12, 4:00 PM
Chip Ahoy said...: If at the end of seven circumlocutions they would all simultaneously whip out a vuvuzela and honk its one note noise in unison, and when they ran out of lung capacity take another breath and honk again

Hoooo,ooooo,ooooo,oooo,oooooo,ooooo,oooooo,ooooo,ooonk

all together and overlapping like one big hoooonk, instead of using actual brass trumpets that could stand a chance of bringing down a sturdy building, then I wouldn't worry at all about architectural collapse.; 4/25/12, 4:37 PM
augustus said...: These self-described clergymen have certainly not thought through the implications of their chosen symbolism.

The walls of Jericho fell so that the Isrealites could kill the inhabitants and take their land. Are these protesters advocating the slaughter of the inhabitants of the Supreme Court? If they wall they intend to make fall is the border fence, you they think those already inside this country deserve to be slaughtered?; 4/25/12, 6:08 PM
Amartel said...: Leslyn, you are expert in missing the point in order to change the topic. (No, that's not what I said. Yes, you are mistaken. Not only mistaken but, apparently, directionally challenged: the bit about the "far right" and KKK and cross burnings - someone actually from the south would know better.); 4/25/12, 6:25 PM