Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: 9 Jan 2025 00:51:31 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <366b4ad1-4849-d7a9-cade-67d1eba035c3@example.net> <35a09fa5-08b1-8121-51c7-28d3aac1cd0f@example.net> <3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net> <4cc6649f-8824-58f5-3244-46bdc60505dd@example.net> <168bbd76-539a-94fb-272d-276bbb4f14a0@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net RsOjuGFhwdHEiC98PUdQSAKUex9EAF8p1phYVovgJV8SMfwuJO Cancel-Lock: sha1:QI4aKJn3wAON+EOXfudtQe+HtZg= sha256:VrkXDnRh5iPPt5psZoUJmn7xuDyyAtKHHl2bvlfNWyA= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64029 On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 18:34:06 +0000, Pancho wrote: > How do you explain Jihadist Islam? > > Religion/ideology is like evolution, the selfish meme. It is a mistake > to presume it must be intrinsically good for adherents, as opposed to > just good at perpetuating itself, creating new adherents. https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/heresy-of-mohammed-10817 Belloc had a good explanation of why Islam didn't fade away like Arianism or other Christian heresies. "Millions of modern people of the white civilization_that is, the civilization of Europe and America_have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. they take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past." He wrote that in 1938.