Was it over the top?

Did you think it glorified terrorism?

Does it presuppose that Mohammed was in fact God's prophet?

Did you think it denigrated Christianity or Judaism?

Would the report have been more accurately named if it were called Mohammed's Warriors?

Was CNN right in promoting this idealism at the expense of Christianity?

you have a link

the commie news network has been on the road to irrelevance for years. This 'story' is but another example of why that's a good thing.

christianity can afford it

No Adj, I do not have a link. The report was a television presentation last night. It lasted an hour and went into great detail about how the extremists believed they were following God's word.

Actually they were following Mohammed's word, which might have questionable value in my evaluation. For this reason I think the report ill-advised.

interesting

well maybe it will become available

sometime in the future

thanks

I did watch it, and I came to an understanding that not everyone in Islam is crazy and wants to blow stuff up. The terrorists are the ones giving a bad name to it all, just like people who claim to be Christians always looking down on others.

Christians look down on others? I never would have thought. How horrible.

Damnitscloudy, that is exactly what Amanpour did, write off islamic terrorists based on the fact that some Christians are bad. I don't think you can excuse the one by the other. Certainly there is a balance problem there. Furthermore, the Christians teach tolerance and love, while the Islam seems to be in many cases, in increasingly large numbers, teaching intolerance and hate. How in the hell can that be a religion?

Yes I think not everyone in Islam is crazy. I think that programs like this can help to promote the extremist view though. People are born to their religion, and they are taught as children and as they grow to believe certain things. You can't blame everyone who is born to a religion or claim they are all bad. But the fundamentals of Islam are horrid. The more devout you become, the more evil as well, it seems. Does this seem true for Christianity as well? For Buddhism?

CNN has a propensity for spreading helpful rhetoric around the world. This is not the only case, but at least for this report, I think they certainly were glorifying the extremist agenda and excusing it.

Bl8, how exactly do you mean Christianity can afford it? Do you mean they are so good that everyone knows better, so its ok to run them down? Or do you mean that they are so evil that nobody would care when they are criticized, since everyone knows they are so bad already? Christianity can afford it? Seems an odd comment to me.

I understand the comment that the "christians can afford it." There are plenty of folks who claim to be Christian, but they too have been born into the "religion" rather than being born again in the Spirit. Those who truly believe and live what they believe, having absolutely nothing to fear from anyone at any point in time. Nothing can separate them from the love of God! They can kill them...and purely sentence them to eternal life? There is no risk! They can afford the opinions of others and know that they are completely loved, protected and highly favored by the Most High God.

honest compliments are so rare these days...lol, thanks for that one

i am a little odd eh??!!


in my opinion , anything that resizes any religion or questions 'authority' at the "expense" of the philosophy of that religion, is something that should be afforded, must be afforded and CAN be afforded....

i prefer to examine by perspectives . all perspectives weighing in with respective values, but each valuable.
there is ,what appears to be black and white, but also every colour shade and hue of everything in between.
even if i don't like the fact of that reality, i still have to accept that it is just so.


bottom line it has nothing to do with religions and everything to do with religions....it is what humanity does with itself. so where do we go from here, what do we do with what we have made, all our lofty concepts of justice and tolerance and love and compassion, where are they?


i move from such stark contrasts in my life, from horrific poverty, brutality and disease , to decadent indulgence and consumer madness of cosmopolitan lifestyle...within hours of each other !!

what makes sense??!!!

there are just some things that exist and are disgusting and have only chaos in them.... but they belong in the big picture, for us to glean some wisdom and personal choice from ( if that is even conceivable at all under the given social/cultural conditionings)..

the operative word being personal... yep. it's all about ME.
do we think we are gonna change the very structure and design of humanity and consciously evolve the whole specis into some utopian dream??....doubt it.

we do what we do, and we are here in an exquisite moment in the existence of life as we know it.... we each must be just what we are , and arriving at that truth and what it looks like for each one of us is our personal expression. many are born into strict dogmatic belief structures, and it takes major traumas often , to shatter those shackles and come full circle to actual conscious awareness and clean choices. many appear to be drones, manufactured to proliferate like worker bees and keep the hive productive...

i have all kinds of perspectives and ways to look at the microcosm and the macrocosm

they are full of logic and nonsense, contradictions and harmonies, fractals and patterns and chaos and at the end of the day...

i am not here to justify or condemn the basic fact that it all exists...i can only be a part of it....we are not seperate

everything is perfectly as it should be


IT does not matter if 'I' like it or not


everything can afford the expense of scrutiny

Blah blah blah. There is right and wrong. There is black and white. Treachery, deception and lies thrive in your bs 'shades in between'.

Bl8, I meant the comment seemed odd, not that you seemed odd.

Fury, I find your response particularly disturbing.

Bl8, I agree with your response quite remarkably, right down the line of comments from the start to the end. Well said.

Now if CNN would keep this in mind when promoting "God's Warriors".