tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post8360170409626471610..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Finger waggingThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-62844264894724558172012-09-26T11:56:59.016+01:002012-09-26T11:56:59.016+01:00There is an irony here too. In part, fear drives t...There is an irony here too. In part, fear drives the theocrats. Of course there is a desire for power and the totalitarian temptation too, but there is real fear of the success of the secular. In the competition between religious hierarchy and secular, tolerant societies, they are losing. They fear that competition. It is a rational fear. And so they try and impose their god by force to the exclusion of all others because they fear extinction. So of course the west is a threat - not in the way that the crass anti-imperialists think - it threatens the power of religion.<br /><br />So they set out to kill their opponents and force adherence, fantasising that it will satisfy their god. They cannot win in the end, but they will create much human misery in their wake.The Plumphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-81656436165670103732012-09-25T22:05:07.536+01:002012-09-25T22:05:07.536+01:00It is fear talking pretending to be virtue. The sa...It is fear talking pretending to be virtue. The same people would have no compunction mocking this or that church because - until your Greek cleric - it was a safe game. George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.com