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2005-02-09 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve 2005-02-09 9:24:48 AM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Priests anywhere *always* lust for political power. It is inherent in them. They can no more not want political power than they can want to stop breathing. *Crafty* priests, however, prefer to use gradualism to achieve those goals, unlike their hot-headed brethren who just cannot abide the idea of the sinful managing their own affairs..

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-02-09 10:45:24 AM|| 2005-02-09 10:45:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 that's an awfully cynical view of all religious practitioners that you can't back up. I reject that blanket characterization.

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-09 11:04:21 AM|| 2005-02-09 11:04:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Doesn't fit with my experience either.

Posted by Tom 2005-02-09 11:14:57 AM|| 2005-02-09 11:14:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The "always" is the problem. I know very many, in fact most, religious folk who don't fit the description. But there is an element in any priesthood (not only religious) that "knows what is good for everybody" and seeks the power to enforce it even on those who disagree. That's what politics is about. I'm also thinking gun controllers, anti-smokers, drug warriors, and leftist academics. They are priests too, just not in organized religions.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-02-09 11:21:35 AM|| 2005-02-09 11:21:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Ayatollah Sistani's spokesman suggests that the ayatollah has no intention of turning Iraq into an Iranian-style theocracy." Well DUH! If Theocracy is failing in Iran, it aint going to work in Iraq. He would find himself in a three-way civil war, that he couldn't possibly win. And make no mistake the Mullacracy in Iran is heading for a fall in the not too distant future.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-02-09 11:27:56 AM|| 2005-02-09 11:27:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Never trust the utterances of power hungry priesthood. Especially when it comes replete with a Taqiyyah license.

Posted by Duh 2005-02-09 1:04:18 PM|| 2005-02-09 1:04:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I think Sistani actually wants the best for the people of Iraq and has no intentions of following the footsteps of the mad mullahs nextdoor. Sistani isn't an Iranian spud like the Tehran Tater punk.

But as always, only time will tell.

Posted by Mac Suirtain 2005-02-09 3:36:49 PM|| 2005-02-09 3:36:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is fairly good news - he has seen the experience fo Iran, and decided to keep his voice a moral one, not a temporal political one.

Your view is biased, quite obviously.

You may want to readjust it in terms of facts, not popular images from movies and TV, and distorted history from socialist liberal atheists authors and professors of the 20th century.

The "power hungry" religious person is a hollywood fiction. Far more death in this past century is at the hands of the godless in the name of "the people". Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-09 10:58:44 PM|| 2005-02-09 10:58:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mac Suirtain---Sistani isn't an Iranian spud like the Tehran Tater punk.

Great image and use of language! LOL!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-09 11:23:29 PM|| 2005-02-09 11:23:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 This is fairly good news - he has seen the experience fo Iran, and decided to keep his voice a moral one, not a temporal political one.

Your view is biased, quite obviously.

You may want to readjust it in terms of facts, not popular images from movies and TV, and distorted history from socialist liberal atheists authors and professors of the 20th century.

The "power hungry" religious person is a hollywood fiction. Far more death in this past century is at the hands of the godless in the name of "the people". Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-09 10:58:44 PM|| 2005-02-09 10:58:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-09 10:58:44 PM|| 2005-02-09 10:58:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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