Reason #4185 why Religion Sucks

The only difference between Christofascists and Islamofascists is that the Christofascists try to use "civilized" ways to fuck over those with whom they disagree.

You people cheapen REAL horrific behavior when you raise a fuss at every little thing.

In other words, your holy book says kill the gags.

In Kings 15:11-12

As Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, he took away the sodomites out of the land.

(I guess this is where good right wing Christians get their idea of "putting the fags on an island and then nuking the island")

You keep saying that the Bible does not encourage Christians to go against people of other faiths, but it does:

(from Deuteronomy)7:3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.  God forbids marriages with those of other tribes. [He makes an exception for Moses, though (Num.12:1, 9-10).] 
7:4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.  (If you do show any mercy to such strangers, "give your daughters to any of them, or "take" any of their daughters, then you'll get God so angry that he'll "destroy thee suddenly." )
7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.  (Destroy the altars, images, and places of worship of those with different religions. )
7:6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. (We're Christians, so we are soooooo much better than you.)

Josh, you are bearing false witness when you say your Bible does not show as much violence as the Koran.  I know you are proud of your religion, but denying the violence and bloodshed in your own holy book makes you look foolish.  The Bible gives Christians as much leeway to wreak havok as does the Koran to Muslims.  Stop acting so goddamned precious.

Fascist is a melding of corporate and state interests.  Islam is the surrender of all worldly interests in order to serve the will of Allah.  Seems to me that "Islamofascist" makes as much linguistic sense as "compassionate conservative".

Here's the deal, Josh.  Christofascists (if I may) live in a society that has incredible wealth, relative security, and a usually decent police force.  Don't think there aren't plenty of them who'd be stoning adulterers if they could get away with it.  Islam isn't the only religion of violent conflicts, just the last to "grow up" (for example, look to Northern Ireland finally getting over the whole Catholic/Protestant thing).

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

Sending emails (Foley is as bad as humping a subordinate (Clinton)

Telling what somebody else said that is still likely true (SOTU reference to Niger and yellowcake) is as bad as lying under oath (Clinton).

Telling the truth about a financial interest you severed (Frist) is worse than the FBI finding $90,000 of stolen money in your freezer. (Jefferson).

See the point here?

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From what I read, endogamy is strictly enforced.  It doesn't excuse this sort of brutality, though.

Then the neo-cons, as you said, will use this as justification for their false war, even while ignoring that their conservativism promotes the same kind of ideological violence of one family member upon another. Parental notification laws, permission slips for Gay straight alliances, ex-gay camps encouraging parents to send in kids by force - all these things are the wave to make sure that parents are empowered to do the dirty work of promoting "family values". Human spirits and lives are destroyed, but they keep their eyes on the scripture or the ideology and its all good.

Of course, parents who committ these crimes can be viewed as victims of misinformation themselves, particularly having intolerant ubringing from granny and granpa. But who wants to blame poor old them? Maybe we ALL have Alzheimers

and the crowd in the US that keeps trying to be holier than thou is a threat to this country.

Duaa, rest in peace...I hope you were able to enjoy what love you had while you were alive.

For the rest of the general populace of the US...I love my boyfriend...what is so wrong about that?  How does my love for my boyfriend threaten your marriages?

I am not going to seduce your husband to be gay.  If your husband has bisexual tendencies, he needs to deal with them outside of my relationship.

Most gay guys don't want to get involved with married men because they bring a lot of closeted messed up emotions to the  relation.

For the holier than thou crowd, there is a difference between religious marriage and civil marriage, get a clue, please.

One can have that ole time religion and NOT have the bigotry and hatred that has permeated the culture.  But I suppose it's easier to paint with a broad brush, rather than to place the blame on the perversion of religion by the less than perfect mankind.  But it does a disservice to all of US who have a religous conviction and to those who support us who share those religions.

Fanaticism is not the equivalant to Religion, the former is a mental disorder.

 

The trollish sounding blogger formerly known as BURNSEY

Having my cake and eating it too? He, he

Religion is the idea that YOU have the TEH TRUTH.  The only difference between your so-called "extremists" and you is that they really, truly believe that God thinks this or that and God really wants them to act on it.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

You don't have to buy the "perversion of religon" angle, but you shouldn't discount it simply because it seems to be overused.

There are many people of a religous nature that believe that God in Infinite Wisdom finds a way to reach each individual based on their needs.  Thus making the tenants of many religions viable as "the" answer for the individual, but not neccesarilly the whole.  It is in fact the perversions of the message that sucks, in that Humans, being imperfect by nature tend to make mistakes and over reach and misinterpret the tenants of GOD.  One also has to look to the historical context of how religions and their guiding books were put together.  Most religions were co-opted by political figures and distorted from their true origins, thus making it the bastardization of Religion the culprit and not Religion in and of itself. (Biblicly speaking one only has to look as far back as Constantine ala 330 AD to see that it was the ruling class that edited and pared back the Bible in order to manipulate the masses and form a relationship between religion and Politics...

Do you believe that those in the Metropolatin Community Church suck?  They are a Religous Church that embraces GLBT people and those of different ethnicities.

It is mankinds failings that have messed up the message of GOD not Religion in and of itself.

I also really do find it a disservice to those of us who are GLBT that have religous convictions to paint us all with the Fred Phelps Brush (It is the extremeists in any religion that muck up the ideals and the message).

It is difficult enough in this world that I have to battle the Organizations to respect that God has a plan for me and that God can have a place in my life without having to battle those I stand with on a daily basis in regards to my being able to have a belief in a Religion and the GOD of my liking.

Sweeping statements like the one you posted make it VERY difficult for those of us who believe in God, and the particular tenants of our religions, but also believe that God made us Gay and there is nothing wrong with that.

I just have grown weary of fighting both sides from the middle.  GAY and a loving God (as well as Religion-unperverted) are not mutually exclusive.

And I do agree that what happened to this young woman is in fact horrible.  I've avoided the video on the news because I have hated that Humans can pervert the word of God in such abysmal ways.

The perversion of religion is much like the perversion of science.  But that perversion doesn't make the HONEST outlook wrong.


The trollish sounding blogger formerly known as BURNSEY

Regarding virtue and violence, you just dispense verbal violence.  No virtue.  Doesn't Jesus make you want to be a better man?  Seriously.  Or are you just a bag of sloshing invective?

Blessed are the peacermakers, Josh.  Jesus went berserk once in His life.  Otherwise, he was the dove of love.  Let's hear you coo, Josh. 

You. 

Can. 

Do. 

It.

Shuck your crust of machismo and be a gentleman. 

"Some people you have to knock down in order to get their attention" --my dad

'Fuck you, you liberal fucks.  You suck, you fucking fucks.' -- Josh, alleged follower of the Prince of Peace 

THE Josh is nonviolent? REALLY?

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

THE Josh (or "Jingo Josh")is obviously aping the less attractive habits of his pill-popping idol, Rush, i e creating an honorific for himself.  Unfortunately, Jingo Josh doesn't have a fan base. 

It worries me when others speak of themselves in the third person.  One day, while telling his reflection how great he is and how he is soooo much better than "fucking liberals," his delicate little mind will snap in two.  Suddenly, his reflection will start telling him awful things, and next thing we know, Jingo Josh will be trolling New York City with a bag full of homemade pumpkin-shaped bombs, looking for Spider-man.

As Walter Lippmann wrote over 70 years ago, religion by its nature is forced into a dichotomy: Either (A) it is true, which then allows no falsehoods, or (B) it is false, which then something else is true. If (A), then not (B). If (B), then not-(A). Simple logic of the disjunction.

With God's "truth" and stamp of approval/disapproval, to boot!

If it wasn't religion, it'd be something else.

Just as religion can be used to bring enlightenment and compassion, it can also be used to bring destruction.  It just depends on whose using it for what purpose.

Saying religion sucks is indeed very broad.

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." -E.E. Cummings

~piXel

I do not think you nor any of the 96% of pseudo-rational religious people are celebrating a religion-based honor killing.  However, by saying that those extremists are "abusing" religion or taking religion to an "extreme", you provide cover to those very extremists by legitimizing their excuse for misbehavior.

For example, some religious "extremists" who "abuse" religion read Leviticus 18:22 and take that as their excuse to beat up and kill gay people.  So people like you will say, "Well, that Bible verse doesn't mean you should beat and kill gay people and the people who think that are extremists who abuse religion!" and in the same breath you'll say "love the sinner, hate the sin" or "the Bible is the Word of God."  Both of you believe your Invisible Superfriend wrote a book that says gays are abominations; the "extremists" just take the book more seriously than you do.

The problem is religion.  Like the old W.C. Fields joke, we've already established what you are, now we're just haggling about the price.

Personally, I'm just tired of having to coddle and tiptoe around plain facts, scientific truths, and observable reality just because it may offend any one of billions of people's Invisible Superfriends.  Until the human race can escape the intellectual immaturity of literal belief in miracles and religion, we'll never reach a place where we can coexist peacefully.

We have a president who literally believes that all Jews and non-Born-Again Christians are going to Hell and the end of the world is coming soon in a fiery Middle Eastern Armageddon.  Do you suppose that informs his Middle East policy just a touch?

We live in a country where a large majority of the population literally believe there are invisible angels flying around us all the time.  Do you suppose that might have something to do with us falling behind India and China in math and science?

We live in a world where each country and each continent is infected with contradictory shared mass delusions that insist they are the Chosen People of God Who Possess the Truth, that their God loves Them and Hates The Infidels, and that the greatest commandment is to love thy neighbor as one loves thyself... except when it is necessary to kill thy neighbor because he believes in the wrong God.  Do you suppose that might have something to do with millennia of wars and Crusades and Inquisitions and imperialism and colonialism and genocide?

(And before you bring up Pol Pot or Stalin, yes, atheists do shitty things, too.  But for every shitty atheist you can name, I can name three-to-five shitty Christians, Muslims, and Jews.)

To not recognize that it is religion at the heart of the problem and to minimize it by limiting it to extremist religion is somewhat like when the NRA tries to minimize the gun control issue -- guns don't kill people, people kill people.  Yeah, but the gun sure helped!  Similarly, religions don't kill people, extremists kill people... but the religion sure helped!  It's hard to be one of the 0.003% of religious extremists if there aren't 96% of the religious moderates who keep the religion alive.

As for "How stupid can [I] be?"  Not so stupid as to misspell "asinine" or believe a three-day-dead corpse can reanimate and float up into the sky, I suppose...

Religion is the idea that you have laws and authority higher than that of the society in which you live.  Until mankind can recognize that mankind is its own highest moral authority, religious strife and killing will continue.

By the way, I'm not the only guy who blasts the deeply held religious beliefs of billions of people...

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." -Abraham Lincoln

"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion." -George Washington

"And the day will come, when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as His Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva, in the brain of Jupiter. " -Thomas Jefferson

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religions in it." -John Adams

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." -William Shakespeare

"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." -Pierre Laplace, to Napoleon, on why his works on celestial mechanics do not mention God

"Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe." -Albert Einstein

"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." -Thomas Jefferson

"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty." -Thomas Jefferson

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church.  All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish [Muslim], appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." -Thomas Paine

"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." -L. Ron Hubbard

There is no God.  And, if there were, He would have to be one sick POS to not lend us a hand -- help us every now and then -- as it is, IF He were to exist, He is the worst, most pathetic absentee Father of all time, the quintessential deadbeat Dad.

What should we do to contain this plague? Burn holy books? Lock up priests? Quarantine congregations? We should be promoting love and tolerance, not stirring up fear.

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

Now, if I were to start a business and put up a "No Christians Allowed" sign, that would be anti-religious bigotry.  But to merely state, "Hey, that whole idea of a three-day-dead corpse re-animating and floating bodily into the sky?  That's horseshit," is merely stating what should be obvious to anyone with a passing knowledge of biology.

I think the Green Bay Packers are the greatest football team in the history of the NFL.  You think it is the Chicago Bears and yell "Green Bay Sucks!" at me.  Does that make you an anti-Packers bigot?  No, at least not uintil you're kicking me out of the bar for my Favre jersey or beating up me and my family for wearing green and gold.

I promote love and tolerance.  I strongly believe in your right to believe in any Invisible Superfriend you wish.  The domain within your skin is your sovereign territory.  But the problem exists when you try to force that delusion upon me and my country and insist that any questioning of your delusion is bigotry.

What to do about it?  I suggest state-funded education for any person who wants it up through Master's Degree level.  Higher education is the ultimate cure for irrational religion.  Second, as someone else commented, I suggest that you so-called religious "moderates" start cleaning your religious house and policing the extremists rather than getting upset at those of us who point out your similarities.

I remember a time way back when people talked about being tolerant and accepting of religion, way back when religious folks were considered the "Silent Majority" and were openly considered to be kooky at best and dangerous at worst.  We were tolerant enough to see Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson rise from piddly-ass country preachers to influential leaders in million-dollar cathedrals, preaching hate and intolerance of anyone who doesn't buy into their Invisible Superfriend. 

Now, thanks to being tolerant and accepting of religion, some of our presidential candidates feel they have to kow-tow to these babbling biblical literalists, call for writing discrimination against gays into the Constitution, deny the human causes of global warming, deny the science of biological change (evolution), and work to put women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant.

So, sorry, no more Mr. Nice Atheist.  If we become any more tolerant and accepting of religion, we'll be praying in school, funding churches with tax dollars, and rounding up people like me for the re-education camps.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

I know that YOU are not advocating bigotry, for the reasons that you said. I also don't think that the comment that I was responding to was a literal call to quarantine or exterminate religious belief. But hyperbole isn't needed - the reality is bad enough. We can call religion irrational, impractical, hypocritical, outdated, or even dangerous, but when we turn it into something so vile that it cannot be reasoned with, we start off down that road of bigotry.

Look at North Korea. Is North Korea a threat? Yes. Does that mean that we should break off diplomacy, demonize the inhabitants, and nuke it into oblivion? No. What about give them what they want and hope they go away? Again, no. We have to keep talking and try to figure this out: what makes them so hateful, what makes them so afraid, and how we can arrive at a peaceful solution. I am not saying we just let them roll over us, but their mere existence is not the threat - it is their actions.

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

It's because keeping religion un-criticizable is more important than keeping it kind, is it? If not, why? Why is it all your condemnation is reserved for those who condemn religion instead of for those who make that condemnation comprehensible?

The past is not a shadow theatre. What rules there is not the ephemeral, but the irreversible. --Gen-Col Dmitri Antonovich Volkogonov

Those are clear and perfect questions.  I too wonder why people of faith who believe that religion should be an instrument of love and peace don't publicly oppose those who use religion to hate and wage war. 

Fundies base being "born again" upon this passage: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. ... He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life."

The passage doesn't suggest that one has to declare Jesus Christ as their "personal Lord and Savior" to be saved.  Rather, I read the passage as one must follow Jesus's lead to be saved: live simply and in service, turn the other cheek when struck, love your neighbor as yourself, withhold judgment, give what you own to the poor, and so on.  The key words in the passage are "life" and "follows me," neither of which suggest that there's a magic phrase that opens the Pearly Gates and one can judge others, wage war, live in luxury, etc., and still live eternally in the presence of God.

Mainstream denominations have been remarkably media ignorant. They are no competition for the conservative denominations and non-denominational congregations, which have invested heavily in owning media, producing media, having PR divisions, and which by their very nature have mastered mass marketing techniques.

And the majority of generally moderate denominations are fighting takeovers orchestrated by right wing carpetbaggers coming in and swaying congregations with propaganda. "Nice" simply doesn't cut it anymore - the pastors have to know how to deal with this type of church politics. See www.talk2action.org for details, look at article on left sidebar "shadow wars: the battle for mainstream faith".

It isn't that we are trying to keep anyone from critical thinking about Religion as a whole, but trying to point out that you can't condemn an entire group of people based on the behavior of some of their members.

Isn't that an argument we in the GLBT community use all the time?  That you can't judge us all as being perverted child molestors because of a few people like Mark Foley?  We as a group don't like being labeled because of the actions of some simply because they have similaraties or share commonalaties, and we should be careful not to do the same to others.

It isn't right when they do it, and it isn't right when we do it.  If it is that's called a double standard.

 

The trollish sounding blogger formerly known as BURNSEY

The overall point is that it is nuts to base your life on what your parents told you their parents told them and their parents told them ad nauseum until we get back to the first Bronze Age nut who claimed he spoke with the Inivisible Superfriend whom no one else ever saw and for which he never had any proof.

The corollary is that even if you're a gay-friendly bishop who disagrees with Leviticus being God's approval of killing gays, but you still say there is a God who dictates rules to man, you're still contributing to the overall problem.  The extremists can then say, "Yes, you're right about the God dictating to man part, but you're not properly interpreting it."

Let's stop arguing over who's interpreting God correctly, since that argument can never be satisfied, and that's what has led to millennia of killings.  Let's argue over points that can be proved or disproved with evidence and experimentation.  Let's agree to live with one another under rules we all (as a majority) agree to and with standards of discussion that require objective reality we can all agree to.

After all, that's what the Founders wanted.  They built a country where no authority higher than Man's was the imprimatur of governance.  No Gods, no rule of kings appointed by God, no obesience to the holy books -- a secular culture is the only one where all religions can thrive.

(Boy, did I touch a nerve or what?)

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

Nah. There ain't no double standard.

But for an alleged Christian, you lob invective and cast judgments and are generally verbally violent.  Is there a double standard?  Sure.  You allege that you're a follower of the Prince of Peace.  Russ alleges no such thing.  Therefore, you establish a different standard for your self, which you repeatedly ignore. 

I love how you liberals give yourselves license to do whatever you want just because you claim no standards. It's a great little system you have there. Sit on your brains and slam other people for doing the same things you do.

Here's my standard: if you assert that you believe in a certain theology, then follow that theology.  If you want to attack and judge, then you need a new religion. 

It's embarrassing to hear you call someone a "fat fuck" and assert that you believe in the Prince of Peace.  Christians ARE called upon to be patsies.  The Bible asserts that there's no greater glory than dying for God, then suffering joyously and gratefully.

Well, I am angry that the political hucksters and swindlers (liberals) are occupying  the sacred halls of government, and it's my job to get the hell out.

As for my sometimes descriptive language, for some people, you have to speak their language in order to get their attention.

But once again, you have absolved yourself of any standards of behavior since you latch onto the religion of anything-goes godlessness.  How very convenient.

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" DAMNATION

"If he has exacted usury Or taken increase -- Shall he then live? He shall not live! If he has done any of these abominations, He shall surely die; His blood shall be upon him." DAMNATION

"If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.
36 'Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.
37 'You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit." ANGERING GOD

As far as "sometimes descriptive language," that's both a euphemism and disingenuous.  From what I've read, cursing and invective are you only ways to communicate.  You allege that you're a Christian, but fail to embody Christian compassion or even have a seminal understanding of Christian theology.  Instead, you fondle the Christ's one moment of rage, not even understanding the precipitator, and thus use that misunderstanding to justify your rage.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" (Matthew 5:9). 
 

As for profit, I wonder how you view somebody like Bill Gates who has earned billions, yet also gives billions in aid to the third world.  Do you think the world would have been better off had he never been around earning his vast fortune?  I'm anxious to see how you hypocrites would respond.

Now, I'm curious, alleged Christian, how do you "comfort the poor"?

Enjoy Hell............

1) It keeps you from having to learn yet another complicated sociological pattern or system of belief. Just lump all the people you don't like into a single word and assume that they are roughly equivalent.

2) It makes it so much easier to hate and to compel others to hate. Nobody likes Hitler, right? Well, if you don't hate Muslims as much as I do, you must be pro-Hitler!

3) It ducks any responsibility for creepy similarities between modern conservatism and the fascist movements of the 30's and 40's. I'm not a fascist, YOU'RE a fascist! Now get in your camps you fascists!

 

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

I have told the story of my daughter have her religion slighted on the hate-/nut- site DemocratUnderground. Those haters of religious zealotry (except against Christians) whined long and loudly over my little expose. See, liberals don't take kindly when you hit em in the nuts with examples of their own hypocrisy.  Remind me to tell you about the lovely pro-choicers my daughters  encountered when I took them to the March For Life in Washington a couple of years ago.

About the bad legal decisions, true, I am not an attorney, but like any good leader and decision-maker, I listen to the opinions of qualified people I trust. That helps me make my decisions.  That to me beats the hell out of relying on the fat fuck Michael Moore, the obscene perv Bill Maher, or the failed comedian-turned-failed talk show host Al Franken for talking points.

Don't you fucking leftwing simpletons realize these people would LOVE to do the same thing to you?

"fucking leftwing simpletons"

So, what kind of Christian are you?  The loathing, slur-slinging sort?  Christian to me means that you emulate the Christ.  And Christians believe that the Christ sees all.  So, isn't the Christ witnessing your loathing of liberals?  Your personal attacks?  Your judging?

Frankly, Josh, I think that there are very few people who truly believe in Jesus.  The Bible says to foresake all that you own and serve the Lord.  Do you?  Are you using a library's computer in-between your shift serving supper to the homeless and your shift at the women's shelter?

Jesus told the truth too, and it pissed a lot of liberals off in His day, too.

  He angered people by defying religious tradition and preaching against wealth. He broke the divisions of class and propriety by dining with prostitutes and taking poor fishermen as disciples. He taught to turn the other cheek and bless those who persecute you.

Are you really that ignorant of your own Bible or are you just trolling for attention? Jesus was a pinko commie liberal, that's why he got killed.

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

Where conservative and liberal can be interchanged for Christian and Muslim respectively.

What the hell was I doing in Oaxaca in 1992, on the eve of the Zapatista revolution?

  "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor[h] and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies[i] and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

Also, Yazidi is not an Islamic sect, and therefore cannot be "Islamofacist."  I refer you to the link I posted in my earlier comment.  Other links that are useful to understanding the Yazidi religion:

http://www.answers.c...

http://www.britannic...

http://atheism.about...

http://lexicorient.c...

And articles on the reaction to the killing by Kurds and Yasidi Kurds in specific:

http://www.stophonou...

http://www.kurdishas...

I just really dislike imprecision.