Tired traveler, you are one crazy wackjob hairless ape

I'm guessing eagles fall under Hawks and Falcons.

Iran isn't in the Middle east, the people there are not Arabs and they don't speak Arabic. Great example of a public school education.

skibum609, no disrespect, but you do realize that you're criticizing a guy pretending to be a lion, don't you? For some reason I suspect he's just making shit up to get a reaction.

Although I hate to read too much into things he says I will just point out that all rickthelion was saying is that Iranians refer to God as Allah, which does have an Arabic origin.

Also, I don't think rickthelion actually asserted that Iran was in the Middle East, but most traditional lists of countries in the Middle East actually do include Iran.

No disrespect but I've decided to stay on rickthelion's good side. He's threatened to go "wildebeest" on me many times. If his attentions shift to you all the better for me!

Plus I agree that pangolins are brilliant! ;)

Evidently we all are entitled to your opinion LOL God no matter what the name has always been an excuse for abuse. Virtually all that claim to be God's only ear on earth are listening to the other one. "Vanity! It's my Favorite Sin!"

Let's see how much of a rise this gets. LOL

TT: As our species is only a couple hundred thousand years old, we are still in the early developmental stages of defining a deity. I think the biggest flaw of the major organized religions is that they focus far too much on dogma, while mostly ignoring the task of defining what a religion SHOULD be, and how to go about developing a sensible approach. Because of this, we have had and will continue to have religious wars. Once you write it down in a book and call it "Gods rules", you stop developing a more advanced morality. I consider this the fatal flaw of all organized religions.

My own personal religion is based on the approach; not on answers. I try and think about what makes us uniquely human and focus on being better at it. For example, we pretend killing is wrong yet governments sanction killing in some circumstances, so "Thou shall not kill" doesn't really help us. Instead, we need to define the parameters of killing. The same can be said of most of the biblical commandments.

Perhaps in another 50,000 years, mankind will have evolved its religions to where they provide more of a framework and less of a black and white approach to good and evil. Until then, we'll hate the Christians, Jews, Muslims. pagans, etc. because that's what our religions compel us to do.

Skibum... Yeah, Iran is in the Middle East by almost all definitions. Ethnically, the population is predominantly Persian (not Arab) at about 60%, and speak that language as well.

You're non-public school education seems at least partially flawed.

roackstar666: I believe the original Aramaic commandment was something like though shalt not kill without proper justification or something like that and it was shortened to "Thou Shalt Not Kill". I learned that from a late night philosophical discussion in college with a pragmatic theology student over a bottle(s) of bourbon. So take it for what it is worth as we were all hammered.