Isil militants have beheaded one of Syria’s most respected archaeologists and an expert on the ancient Roman city of Palmyra. Khaled Al-Asaad, who was director of antiquities at the Unesco World Heritage Site from 1963 to 2003, was murdered on 18 August and his body tied to an ancient column within the 2,000-year-old archaeological site.
According to Abdulkarim, Al-Asaad was [...] killed for refusing to help Isil find antiquities that were hidden before the invasion of Palmyra.
— theartnewspaper.com
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Ah, religion.
Beautiful ain't it?
I'm not trying to argue, I know what you mean, it's a form of ideological thinking, but ultimately this is psychopathy. Gang raping girls, beheading whomever, eradicating history and culture. Maybe we deserve global warming, because it seems like the only way we seem to evolve, and we definitely need to.
$ is also a religion.
$ is also a monotheist religion... they're all the same.
John Lennon Imagine
^ Thayer, I'm also not trying to argue, but if you review history, religion IS psychopathy, it's just a matter of time, including $.
I'm sorry, but ISIS is not "religion" it's nihilism, pure and simple.
it's really disappointing to encounter these completely ignorant and careless comments about 'religion' in response to the news in this article. a single iota of thoughtfulness would cause you to realize, nonsequitur, and curtkram, that the majority of the people on earth practice some religion or faith and the vast majority of them do so without oppressing or damaging other people; in fact, they do so with compassion and to the benefit of their neighbor, community, and fellow man.
your blanket disdain for all religions is ignorant, as is your ascribing the tragedy of this execution merely to 'religion'. both are simplistic and stupid ways of thinking.
I3wis, my comment was highly relevant. Too many people are quick to defend superstitions because most people are not chopping heads off or whatever the flavour of the week is. This does not mean that their sky daddies and philosophies are exempt from criticism.
Religion deserves all the criticism it receives when it crosses into public discussion.
I3wis- it's ignorant to ignore the history of religion as a power structure responsible for war, genocide, etc.
non Seq, your comment was completely thoughtless. you had zero criticism. you put ISIS together with religion, and they are not religious.
"cult" is a better term. cult=psychopathy......imagine David Kuresh instead of being held up in Waco, TX executing people. no mainstream Christian would have allowed it for long........the state of Islam is unfortunate currently, any cleric or scholar who provides proper (appropriate and essentially peaceful) interpretation of the religion receives death threats and varying faction's of Mosques are blown up (think Protestants vs Catholics centuries ago).............IS IS would be a great nihilist name anyway. existence twice must mean negate existence
Miles, I think it's fair to say that religion is an excuse to do the evil some of us have, but it could have been done in the name of honor or any other reason. Being agnostic, I have nothing against peoples religion. I have something against the people who do horrendous things in the name of religion or whatever ideological banner they are waving. It's like the guy who says he's good because he believes in god. Until one sees the person in action, he can say anything he wants. ISIS is a bunch of lunatic psychopaths, who chose a religious banner, but look at Hitler or Stalin. It's not religion that does these kind of things, it's people.
Hm... I knew it was a religion on peace...
the only time Jesus ever really got violent - commerce in the house of god.
Source: Matthew 21:12
a single iota of thoughtfulness would cause you to realize, nonsequitur, and curtkram, that the majority of the people on earth practice some religion or faith and the vast majority of them do so without oppressing or damaging other people; in fact, they do so with compassion and to the benefit of their neighbor, community, and fellow man.
most religious people i meet are just as selfish and sacrilegious as the non-religious. the tea partiers come to mind. that duggar guy comes to mind. all the religious homophobes or people judging girls getting abortions while not giving a shit about the welfare of the parents or kids involved. a single iota of empathy and you might realize how fucked up your judgement is. go chase your greed and false idols like your other religious brethren.
your blanket disdain for all religions is ignorant, as is your ascribing the tragedy of this execution merely to 'religion'. both are simplistic and stupid ways of thinking.
there was no blanket disdain on my part. my disdain was focused on monotheists. i can't help but think your understanding of religion and the world are simplistic and stupid, but if your education came from your church that's probably to be expected.
Matthew 7:3-5
You can't lump social justice Christians with the Duggars or Santorums of the world, and think you've "nailed" Christians.
what is a 'social justice christian?'
i guess my initial assumption is that you're trying to separate one sect of christians, those that are interested in social justice, from another sect of christians, those who are perhaps not interested in social justice.
being interested in social justice is enough. dividing your church on that basis is a bad idea, as shown in 1 Corinthians 1:10-18
The Christian power structure were murdering, torturing, totalitarian fucks too...just in a different era.
And that's not nearly all of their abominations through history.
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/23/the_science_of_forgiveness_when_you_dont_forgive_you_release_all_the_chemicals_of_the_stress_response/
curt, is that the same kind of logic that white christian conservatives use, when they tell social justice christians - who believe in equal rights for LGBTQ - that we are discriminating against their beliefs, and practicing "hate" speech?
beta, i don't know. i'm not sure i know what you're talking about. christian mostly just means you believe in jesus and all that goes with that sort of belief, and i assume social justice means you think equal rights should be extended to a broader section of our community than just the white guys.
you can support what you believe to be social justice with or without the 'christian' tag.
you can believe in jesus and be a christian with or without the 'social justice' tag.
dividing your religion based on your belief that the organization should push one agenda, while others push another agenda, is something paul warned against in his letter to the corinthians, as i linked to above. i don't think that falls under 'logic,' it's an outline for how the church should be run, as written by one of the organization's founders.
which side is practicing 'hate speech?' i think that's where you lost me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/youtube-battle-against-isis_55d61416e4b0ab468da037a6?kvcommref=mostpopular
curt, you cited Corinthians. I would suggest, that the New Testament paints Jesus as a social justice crusader, that's how my church would see the faith. There would not be room in my church for Westboro, and you citing of that passage seems to suggest that my faith should be welcoming of people who side with God Hates Fags, and that if we don't, we're the bad ones, that we're trampling on their rights. The Lutherans had their issues in the 70's and split to different sects, and i know many of those people, on the conservative side of lutheranism, would find the female pastor to be unacceptable.
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