Europe, the not boring thread

[BjornP]

I don't know if it's all Muslims like this or not, though. Maybe it's just certain kinds, like how Protestant heretics eat meat on Good Friday.

Only the superstition of popery would choose to not just go vegetarian, but to do it half-assedly for one day. The evidence is clear: God is clearly a Protestant. Biggest empire in world history: The Protestant British. Who did God turn into a modern super-power? The predominantly Protestant USA. Why is America in the decline now? Catholics are poised to outnumber US protestants in the near future.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Catholics are poised to outnumber US protestants in the near future.

Source?

This would be really nice, if true. Less preachiness, less moral legislation.

[Hastur]

Catholics are poised to outnumber US protestants in the near future.

Source?

This would be really nice, if true. Less preachiness, less moral legislation.

Hint: Mexicans are catholics.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Catholics are poised to outnumber US protestants in the near future.

Source?

This would be really nice, if true. Less preachiness, less moral legislation.

Hint: Mexicans are catholics.

I have had exactly zero Catholics thumping bibles in my face, thus far in my time on earth.

[BjornP]

Catholics are poised to outnumber US protestants in the near future.

Source?

My left nut. A little angel resides there, whispering divine truths to me so that I may bring forth His light upon the wicked and the ignorant.

[Speaker to Animals]

Well that video is fucking horrible.

[C-Mag]

[BjornP]

Cry me a river, Poland. They formally agreed to take those refugees on. They "forced" themselves, iow. A little late to whine about regretting that. And that kid in the video... dear god, she's speaking in fluent hysterical drama queenish. It's goddamn embarrasing for a country that beat one of the greatest Islamic threats in history to treat some refugees as equal to the old Ottoman threat. You don't become a caliphate or a haven for sharia law by agreeing to take on a handful of Muslim refugees. A country with no Muslims, worrying that agreeing to take on a handful of refugees - refugees NOT accept them as citizens or permanent residents in any way - will magically turn Poland into a sharia state. In case none of you understand this yet: Refugees are not immigrants. A refugee or asylum seeker does not get the right to settle down in the country they're seeking asylum in. Once fighting in their homelands are over, send them and their children back home. Like the rest of Europe has always done.

Oh, and if you don't intend to honor agreements you sign... don't sign them in the first place. Generally a good idea in international relations.

[Xenophon]

Cry me a river, Poland. They formally agreed to take those refugees on. They "forced" themselves, iow. A little late to whine about regretting that. And that kid in the video... dear god, she's speaking in fluent hysterical drama queenish. It's goddamn embarrasing for a country that beat one of the greatest Islamic threats in history to treat some refugees as equal to the old Ottoman threat. You don't become a caliphate or a haven for sharia law by agreeing to take on a handful of Muslim refugees. A country with no Muslims, worrying that agreeing to take on a handful of refugees - refugees NOT accept them as citizens or permanent residents in any way - will magically turn Poland into a sharia state. In case none of you understand this yet: Refugees are not immigrants. A refugee or asylum seeker does not get the right to settle down in the country they're seeking asylum in. Once fighting in their homelands are over, send them and their children back home. Like the rest of Europe has always done.

Oh, and if you don't intend to honor agreements you sign... don't sign them in the first place. Generally a good idea in international relations.

At what point have they not been murdering each other in the Middle East or Africa?

[BjornP]

Cry me a river, Poland. They formally agreed to take those refugees on. They "forced" themselves, iow. A little late to whine about regretting that. And that kid in the video... dear god, she's speaking in fluent hysterical drama queenish. It's goddamn embarrasing for a country that beat one of the greatest Islamic threats in history to treat some refugees as equal to the old Ottoman threat. You don't become a caliphate or a haven for sharia law by agreeing to take on a handful of Muslim refugees. A country with no Muslims, worrying that agreeing to take on a handful of refugees - refugees NOT accept them as citizens or permanent residents in any way - will magically turn Poland into a sharia state. In case none of you understand this yet: Refugees are not immigrants. A refugee or asylum seeker does not get the right to settle down in the country they're seeking asylum in. Once fighting in their homelands are over, send them and their children back home. Like the rest of Europe has always done.

Oh, and if you don't intend to honor agreements you sign... don't sign them in the first place. Generally a good idea in international relations.

At what point have they not been murdering each other in the Middle East or Africa?

At what point have they not been murdering each other in Europe, the Americas or Asia? Sure, Canada is safe, but Mexico is a violence-ridden third world country. Ukraine is embroiled in a civil war, Armenia the same, and the ex-Yugoslav wars were fairly recent as well. And Asia... well, you already mentioned the ME, but the Phillipines, the Koreas, the fight over Kashmir....

And you do realize that Africa is an entire continent, right? There are plenty of African countries that haven't been to war for as long a time as European countries, and there are African countries who are not mired in tribal warfare as well. Amazing, I know... but true.

It's almost as if pointing to huge geographical regions that emcompasses thousands of completely different cultural groups, or in Africa's case a huge continent, isn't an intelligent way to determine...anything.

You are from the Americas. Yet, your culture is not Mexican. Judging you as if you were, because you are also from the Americas... you do understand why that's retarded, right?

Not that that has any bearing on admitting refugees, at all, though. I'd be willing to accept a couple of Americans into my country if you descended into civil war. Maybe let you stay for a full ten years, even. But when that civil war ended, you and your children would be going back. That's what refugees mean. I don't want American culture here, but I also won't be getting American culture here by agreeing to take on American refugees to my country. We didn't become Albanian by letting in Albanian refugees, we didn't become Palestinians, by letting in Palestinian refugees and we didn't become Somalis, by admitting Somali refugees. Anyone who thinks that their society is that weak, is a weakling vomit drinker projecting their own weaknesses unto the culture they're - a lesser- part of. Though I'd be embarassed to be Polish and consider admitting a couple thousand refugees into my country as equal to doomsday nightmares of my society having become a sharia law state.