Poking Fun, In Good Faith

Posted April 25, 2004, 3:49 p.m.

I enjoyed this article and thought you all might want to read it. This is probably a closer representation of most of the Muslims I have met than the typical stereotypes.

Poking Fun, In Good Faith—Muslim Comics Laugh In the Face of Intolerance (WashingtonPost.com [no longer available]).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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I cannot see how to refute the arguments for the subjectivity of ethical values, but I find myself incapable of believing that all that is wrong with wanton cruelty is that I don’t like it.

As a general rule, it’s always smarter to criticize people who aren’t around.

Man, by making himself a god, discovers the painful agony that he is not God.

Whoever hates reproof walks in the steps of the sinner, but he that fears the Lord will repent in his heart.

It is the difference between art and science. Art creates truth, science discovers truth. We discover giraffes but we create hobbits.

Take it from me when I say a good sense of humor can compensate for a lot of other shortcomings in one’s looks and personality.

A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.

The corruption of the best is the worst of all.

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Now, the psychological discovery is merely this, that whereas it had been supposed that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by extending our ego to infinity, the truth is that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by reducing our ego to zero.

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

We must see life in its true light. . . . It is an instant between two eternities. Let us suffer in peace!

The two greatest institutions ever devised for lifting people out of poverty and enabling them to live in dignity are the market economy and the institution of marriage. These institutions will stand together, or they will fall together.

The capital resources of the nation are not increased by using the tax collector rather than the stock market to mobilize them.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

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