re how to pray, etc.

[David Morris]

--- thomas kyhn rovsing hjoernet <tkrh at worldonline.dk> wrote:
> > 
> > It is absurd to state that there is a "religious aspect of this war"
(whatever THAT is supposed to mean) because a US soldier is practicing his own
religion.  If he were trying to convert a muslin, that would be different.
> 
> If you read the text very carefully you will notice that I wrote 'suggests a
religious aspect', I did not state positively, etc.

Please.  Add "suggests" to all your posts from now on so we can know that you
don't mean to "suggest" anything.

> [...]
> To expand on what I did write: the fact that soldiers are baptized in the
battlefield indicates, at least, that they are eager to be baptized (not to
mention that they haven't been baptized before when, by all probability, such a
procedure could be undergone under far more convenient circumstances), and that
they, very likely, only recently got this religion (and so are not just
practicing their own religion, as if that included being baptized regularly);
that soldiers are eager to be baptized could have a connection not only to the
presence of death on the battlefield, but also to (possible) religious
undercurrents in the war, as for instance oppositional relations between
moslems and christians.

You can only surmise the circumstances of some soldier opting to be babtized in
the field, but the imminence of death is obviously the most pressing reason.  I
can fictionalize many scenarios in particular.  I babtize myself regularly fom
my asshole up, but we won't go there...
 
> Another thing, if you do not know what 'a religious aspect of this war'
means, how would you know with such certainty that what I'm writing is absurd?

I can only surmise the realm of absurdities that I can imagine.
 
> >>> You seem to me to be grasping for yet another reason to object to this 
war.
> >> 
> >> I'm not grasping for anything.
> >> 
> >>> I think this is dishonest.
> >> 
> >> What is?
> > 
> > Grasping is dishonest.
> 
> Like in grasping the meaning of something, for example?
> 
> > If you're not grasping, you're just being absurd.
> 
> Either or?
> 

"Grasping at a straw" was my colloquialism.  It has to do with wishful
thinking, but in your case it has to do with negative wishful thinking.

David Morris

David Morris



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