Things you have heard people say that have scared you

[The Mullinator]

What things have the extreme right said that scared you? What things have the extreme left said that have scared you? What things have various people said about religion that have scared you? What have friends or random people off the street said about something that has scared you? It could scare you simply because of the ignorance it shows or the fact that it was in direct opposition to what you believe in, or perhaps its because it made you realize something you didn't think about or chose not to think about before.

We all hear people say things that really scare us when we think about what it means and what it means comming from the people who said it.

I'm asking this because its a good way to see what we don't want to happen. By the way, in an effort to prevent flaming if it was said by a member of these forums could you please not name whoever said it?

 

[Kmack]

"the next president of the united states is...George W. Bush"

the beginning of a nightmare the likes of which will echo throughout the next several decades.

 

[short recoil]

"the next president of the united states is...George W. Bush"

the beginning of a nightmare the likes of which will echo throughout the next several decades.

LOL, i was just waiting for someone to put that, was tempted myself.

The next scariest thing has to be "4 more years" being chanted by his supporters......enough to give me nightmares for months.

 

[The Mullinator]

Here are two things that when put together scare me:

If the Muslim community continues to grow at the present rate, by the year 2015 Islam will be the second largest religion in the United States.

http://muslim-canada.org/HamdardCentury.html

Combined with: http://www.conservativetruth.org/article.php?id=2069

The reason that scares me is very simple. The last thing the world needs right now is a rebirth of a "rule through religion" like we had before the renaissance in western world. When you combine that problem with the threat of a religion such as Islam growing at such an astounding rate that still has many nations caught in the "rule through religion" you can start to see why it is scaring me a lot. Christianity is really a dying religion at this point. It has been dying for a few centuries now that is why I am not really scared by it. Islam however is just starting to really pick up.

 

[DeusExMachina]

"We're in Iraq to preserve American freedom!"

 

[Sulkdodds]

www.stormfront.org anyone?

 

[Gray Fox]

Here are two things that when put together scare me:

http://muslim-canada.org/HamdardCentury.html

Combined with: http://www.conservativetruth.org/article.php?id=2069

The reason that scares me is very simple. The last thing the world needs right now is a rebirth of a "rule through religion" like we had before the renaissance in western world. When you combine that problem with the threat of a religion such as Islam growing at such an astounding rate that still has many nations caught in the "rule through religion" you can start to see why it is scaring me a lot. Christianity is really a dying religion at this point. It has been dying for a few centuries now that is why I am not really scared by it. Islam however is just starting to really pick up.

I don't really trust your sources. I mean the antidote to the liberal news media

 

[DeusExMachina]

www.stormfront.org anyone?

Ugh, I hate those sites.

 

[The Mullinator]

I don't really trust your sources. I mean the antidote to the liberal news media

Whats not to trust? The first one is just a little quote that is probably easily proven through statistics. The second is just someones opinion of what could happen if American were to become an Islamic state, which I have to say seems to me like an accurate analysis. It never said that it would happen.

 

[French Ninja]

Something I read in a Time Magazine:

Muslims will not condone the London bombings, but inside they believe Britian had it coming.
Sajid Sharif
-October 3, 2005

 

[Top Secret]

"Jack Thompson."


*Shiver*

 

[CptStern]

the usual suspects:



"we dont do body counts" - Tommy Franks


"we think the price was worth it" - Madeline Albright


"Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The Biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line."
--Jerry Falwell


"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals." - Jerry Falwell


"The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian." - Jesse Helms (Sen. R-NC)


"I want to coin a phrase here, and I don't mind help. What would be the communication version of "ethnic cleansing?" Because that's what in particular the homosexual activists try to do." - Laura Schlessinger


“George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.” - Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin


"For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ." - Ronald Reagan


"Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it." - Michael Savage (Savage Nation)


"There is only one way to eliminate nuclear weapons...use them." - Rush Limbaugh


"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war." - Ann Coulter


""Not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." - Ann Coulter


"Don't use the word 'gay' unless it's an acronym for 'Got Aids Yet'" - Bob Dornan, Republican


"The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion–must be denied citizenship."


"This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians." - Gary North (Institute for Christian Economics)


"When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data." - Henry Morris (Institute for Creation Research)


"We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."- James Watt (Secretary of the Interior during Reagan)


"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." - George Bush Sr


"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them." - George W Bush

 

[Lemonking]

lol thats some scary shit stern 0.o

 

[Raeven0]

Person A: "You look sick."
Person B: "Yeah, I [have a headache/have a cold/don't feel well/(insert any physical ailment)]."
Person A: "Must be the weather change."
I: *grabs Person A's neck and breaks it with one hand for exhibiting such idiocy in my presence*

...Climate changes may promote physical ailments. Rain, wind, clouds, and the formation of a 15-degree-6-minute angle by the three innermost planets do not.

 

[clarky003]

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

that website scares me, Paul wolfawitz scares me... what scares me most is somehow people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld get to stay around for decades in and around the power pot, Everything in concept on that site is extreme right.. made scarier because the people who are invlovled in that are now calling the shot's.

 

[Kmack]

Whats not to trust? The first one is just a little quote that is probably easily proven through statistics.

wow. concrete.

 

[The Mullinator]

wow. concrete.

Some even say its already the second largest religion in the US. Although that I don't believe.
http://www.islamfortoday.com/america01.htm

The CIA world fact book even places it as the second largest religion in the world today. Statistically speaking its also growing faster than Christianity which is currently the largest religion in the world. Seriously what is not to believe here?

Based on the percentages published in the 2005 CIA World Factbook ("World"), Islam is the second largest religion in the world. According to the World Network of Religious Futurists, the U.S. Center for World Mission, and the controversial Samuel Huntington, Islam is growing faster numerically than any of the other major world religions. Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance estimate that it is growing at about 2.9% annually, as opposed to 2.3% per year global population growth. This is attributed either to the higher birth rates in many Islamic countries (six out of the top-ten countries in the world with the highest birth rates have a Muslim majority [1]) and/or high rates of conversion to Islam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam

 

[Kmack]

Why are you scared that islam is the second largest religion? frankly im scared christianity is the biggest, i cant go anywhere or turn on the news without hearing aboutr some christian group telling people what to do (****ing bumper stickers telling me what marriage is supposed to be). i dont give a shit about a person and their religion, let alone which religion is "biggest". religion is for the weak.

what scares me is people who get scared of a religion becoming larger.

maybe it is getting larger because it is better :thumbs:

 

[The Mullinator]

Why are you scared that islam is the second largest religion? frankly im scared christianity is the biggest, i cant go anywhere or turn on the news without hearing aboutr some christian group telling people what to do (****ing bumper stickers telling me what marriage is supposed to be). i dont give a shit about a person and their religion, let alone which religion is "biggest". religion is for the weak.

what scares me is people who get scared of a religion becoming larger.

maybe it is getting larger because it is better :thumbs:

I already said this:
"The reason that scares me is very simple. The last thing the world needs right now is a rebirth of a "rule through religion" like we had before the renaissance in western world. When you combine that problem with the threat of a religion such as Islam growing at such an astounding rate that still has many nations caught in the "rule through religion" you can start to see why it is scaring me a lot. Christianity is really a dying religion at this point. It has been dying for a few centuries now that is why I am not really scared by it. Islam however is just starting to really pick up."

I say Christianity is dying because you can actually see that over the centuries it has lost a lot of what it once was, it isn't nearly as powerful in the Western world as it used to be. Meanwhile Islam is gaining power, it is showing no signs of slowing down. That is why I am more scared of it that Christianity.

 

[CptStern]

I think in the last decade or so christianity has undergone a resurgence ...mostly the extremist side

 

[The Mullinator]

I think in the last decade or so christianity has undergone a resurgence ...mostly the extremist side

I agree, however I personally view it as more of a desperate and ultimately futile struggle to regain its lost power.

 

[CptStern]

I dont know ..I mean look at the influence christianity has on american politics? Judges refusing to take down the 10 commandments, a president saying he was chosen by god, religious leaders saying homosexuals were responsible for 9/11 ...the pope recently threatened Paul Martin with ex-communication because canada has same-sex marriages. There's many religious people in high places ..and not just in the US

 

[Ennui]

Conservatives scare the hell out of me because I feel like liberals are constantly fighting against conservatives not to win over their views but rather to repair and prevent damage that the conservative way would cause and does cause.

 

[The Mullinator]

I dont know ..I mean look at the influence christianity has on american politics? Judges refusing to take down the 10 commandments, a president saying he was chosen by god, religious leaders saying homosexuals were responsible for 9/11 ...the pope recently threatened Paul Martin with ex-communication because canada has same-sex marriages. There's many religious people in high places ..and not just in the US

Still better than it used to be. Besides with the current failures and low public support Bush currently has is a good sign that people do not like the leader that god has "chosen". As for the courts Bush has just angered many on the right with his most recent decision. Religious leaders saying such stupid things as homosexuals being responsible for 9/11 I suspect are far more likely to alienate the majority of Americans which is the complete opposite of what they want right now.

I mean reading something like this must be making quite a few people happy right now:

PRESIDENT BUSH, facing mounting anger among his right-wing supporters over runaway spending, his latest Supreme Court nomination and the Iraq war, was forced to declare yesterday: “I’m still a conservative, proudly so.”

Confronted by growing disillusionment and a sense of betrayal among conservatives of all stripes, Mr Bush used a hastily arranged press conference in the Rose Garden to assure his traditional supporters that he was still one of them.

All the US needs right now if you ask me is a strong leader who is somewhat opposite of Bush to set the country straight. I don't think that will happen in the next election but perhaps the one after that. That still won't cause the US to move forward as fast as some other countries but it would certainly reverse this backward trend that has recently been occuring.

 

[CptStern]

Still better than it used to be. Besides with the current failures and low public support Bush currently has is a good sign that people do not like the leader that god has "chosen". As for the courts Bush has just angered many on the right with his most recent decision. Religious leaders saying such stupid things as homosexuals being responsible for 9/11 I suspect are far more likely to alienate the majority of Americans which is the complete opposite of what they want right now.

All the US needs right now if you ask me is a strong leader who is somewhat opposite of Bush to set the country straight. I don't think that will happen in the next election but perhaps the one after that. That still won't cause the US to move forward as fast as some other countries but it would certainly reverse this backward trend that has recently been occuring.

I truely hope so

 

[DreamThrall]

Munro

Nuff said.

 

[gh0st]

i'm disappointed i havent been quoted in this thread. welcome back kmack

 

[DreamThrall]

welcome back kmack

Now there's one...

 

[OCybrManO]

"Zombie Master"
[sarcasm]I get scared just thinking about it...[/sarcasm]

 

[Icarusintel]

"Hillary Clinton should run for President"

Thank God I didn;t have any kind of killing implement in my hand when I heard that one, or else I'd probably be sitting in jail right now

 

[Kmack]

Conservatives scare the hell out of me because I feel like liberals are constantly fighting against conservatives not to win over their views but rather to repair and prevent damage that the conservative way would cause and does cause.

beautiful! seconded
(and its true, its so utterly true)

 

[Solaris]

Here are two things that when put together scare me:

http://muslim-canada.org/HamdardCentury.html

Combined with: http://www.conservativetruth.org/article.php?id=2069

The reason that scares me is very simple. The last thing the world needs right now is a rebirth of a "rule through religion" like we had before the renaissance in western world. When you combine that problem with the threat of a religion such as Islam growing at such an astounding rate that still has many nations caught in the "rule through religion" you can start to see why it is scaring me a lot. Christianity is really a dying religion at this point. It has been dying for a few centuries now that is why I am not really scared by it. Islam however is just starting to really pick up.

Ive lost all respect for you.

 

[Sulkdodds]

You realise his problem is not with Islam specifically, but with the danger of another very strong religion rising to a position where it can affect the world according to its principles?

As Christianity equated tyranny in the past, it's a fair worry that Islam may grow to do the same. It could be any other religion in its place.

I think that's what he's saying. :O

 

[The Monkey]

"I'll probably be popped off by some loony."

-John Lennon, when asked how he expected to die.

 

[Kmack]

You realise his problem is not with Islam specifically, but with the danger of another very strong religion rising to a position where it can affect the world according to its principles?

As Christianity equated tyranny in the past, it's a fair worry that Islam may grow to do the same. It could be any other religion in its place.

I think that's what he's saying. :O

frankly, i think its about time, christianity is still tyrannical and their influence on the everyday lives of private citizens is disgusting. ive seen christianity, listened to them shove their faces into every aspect of modern life (politics, pop culture, science, education). frankly, id like to see what islam can do as top dog.

 

[Sulkdodds]

I doubt they'd do any better, to be honest. Religion in such a powerful position is generally a bad thing...unless perhaps it's Buddhism.

 

[CptStern]

i'm disappointed i havent been quoted in this thread.

ok:

[sarcasm]my kind of game.[/sarcasm]

- referring to a racist PC game where your objective is to kill as many minorities as possible

 

[The Mullinator]

You realise his problem is not with Islam specifically, but with the danger of another very strong religion rising to a position where it can affect the world according to its principles?

As Christianity equated tyranny in the past, it's a fair worry that Islam may grow to do the same. It could be any other religion in its place.

I think that's what he's saying. :O

Thats exactly what I am saying. :cheers:

 

[Solaris]

Mullinator, if everyone were real muslims there would be no poverty, no wars.

Islam is a great religion, its just abused as all religions are.

 

[The Mullinator]

Mullinator, if everyone were real muslims there would be no poverty, no wars.

Islam is a great religion, its just abused as all religions are.

No poverty and no wars? I guess so, in a perfect world. Also in a perfect world and everyone was Christian then we also wouldn't have any poverty and wars. However lets be realistic here, there is never going to be a perfect world. Pure Christianity and pure Islam are very peaceful religions. However in practice it rarely ever occurs that way, and that is where the problems lie.