- THERE IS NO GOD, THERE ARE NO ATHEIST TERRORISTS, AND
THERE IS NO "WAR ON TERROR"
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- In its campaign "2004 - Year of Atheism", launched
by His Holiness RAEL on December 13th 2003, the Raelian Movement (www.rael.org
and www.thereisnogod.info) is discovering more and more that Americans
do not agree with what George Bush tells us - that "war is unfortunate
but necessary to rid the world of evil", implying that God approves
of America's policies in which thousands of innocent children are killed
in Iraq, US and British soldiers torturing Iraqis or the hundreds of US
coffins coming home - all this while the populations of Muslim countries
are indoctrinating little children that Islam is the only true religion
in order to retaliate.
The current "Year of Atheism" campaign is giving more and more
people the courage to speak up against the politically correct who immediately
call atheists "unpatriotic" or other such nonsense. A growing
number of Americans understand that belief in a god removes all responsibility
for one's actions and humanity places itself in a position of being powerless
pawns in some sort of "divine game" being played out. The Raelian
Movement and other atheist organizations teach that we are responsible
for our actions - or lack of actions. Humanity's future is up to humanity,
not a god.
It should be obvious by now that violence can only bring more violence
- and that love will bring only more love. We should be very aware of how
much violence in old religious text has shaped the world in which we live.
The Old Testament's "eye for an eye" was taught to be wrong by
Jesus and was replaced by "love your enemy". George Bush, who
claims to read from the Bible every morning, somehow missed this most famous
message of Jesus and if he really followed Jesus, would lead the world
to peace instead of war.
His Holiness RAEL declares:
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- "Another big lie is the idea that there is a "war
against terrorism". There is no such thing. A war is waged by an army
fighting against another army. Fighting terrorism may be a police matter,
but not a military one. And that is where education has failed. Because
the real weapon against terrorism is education.
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- When a proper education teaches children atheist values
of respect for every other human being nobody is willing to crash an airplane
into a building in the name of Allah or any supernatural being hoping to
access an imaginary "heaven". With an atheistic education nobody
believes in any kind of life after death, and then everybody tries to make
this life, the only one we are sure to have, better for everybody.
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- Peaceful citizens need, of course, to be protected against
terrorists, these people who were already badly-educated and who are ready
to die for their beliefs by becoming human bombs in the name of their supernatural
gods. But this is not a war. It's a matter for police. The huge military
expenses, advanced jets and armored vehicles, missiles and satellites can
do nothing against 3 men with a box cutter who decide to hijack a Boeing.
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- It is always laughable to see the media illustrating
the idea of war against terrorism by showing military training in terrorist
camps. You do not need months of training in para military camps to hijack
an airplane with a box cutter! Wake up, it's a cutter not a machine gun!
This is a pure campaign of disinformation in order to support the alleged
"war on terror" which doesn't exist. And by invading other countries
in the name of this so called "war on terror", killing thousands
of innocent civilians, imprisoning and torturing thousands of others, America
is only generating a thousand times more terrorists ready to die to avenge
the death and tortures endured by their friends and families.
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- How can citizens of the "country of freedom"
and the most advanced country in the world, United States of America, suddenly
become war criminals, torturers and abusers? Only because they are indoctrinated
by this big lie of a "war on terror" which makes them see all
Arabs or Muslims as potential terrorists potentially guilty of September
11 attacks, and needing punishment.
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- It is exactly like the Germans in 1938 who were indoctrinated
to hate the Jews so much that a majority of them were ready to help Adolph
Hitler put them in concentration camps and exterminate them. Guantanamo
looks more and more like Auschwitz and it is indeed a concentration camp
where so-called "detainees" have absolutely no rights. The imaginary
" war on terror" is creating more terrorists and the future will
sadly prove it.
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- Before this war started there were a few hundred religious
fanatics ready to blow themselves up in the name of their god, now they
are hundreds of thousands all around the Muslim world who hate America
as never before. Hatred creates hatred. War brings war and violence brings
violence. "Those who live by the sword will die by the sword ".
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- That's why it is more than ever of the utmost importance
to remember what Jesus said: "Love your enemies". If these words
of Christian wisdom from Jesus were applied by George Bush, who falsely
claims to be a Christian, after September 11 the American President would
not have started a war, but by loving his enemies, would have given more
support to Palestinians, received more Palestinians refugees, withdrawn
the military from Saudi Arabia, canceled the economic sanctions against
Iraq which killed so many children, asked Israel to destroy its nuclear
weapons of mass destruction (and these nukes are really there), and given
as much money as it gives to Israel to Arab countries in a more balanced
way.
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- This would have brought peace and love, which would have
dramatically brought down the number of potential terrorists. And it doesn't
mean that at the same time security in the airports couldn't have been
increased which is one more time a matter for police and not militaries.
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- Education and atheism are the most important weapons
to fight terrorism. Remember: there is no such thing as an atheist terrorist.
Because when you don't believe in god and heaven, you have nothing to die
for, and you are just willing to live happily as long as possible and make
the life of other human beings better."
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Office at 305-690-9800 or donnajn@bellsouth.net
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