israel may not be following international law right now, but law is about the implication of force, and i think they are justified in ignoring the rules for the moment.

gaza has elected hamas repeatedly. they had to expect this, eventually. they got what they voted for.

let me try this.

i am an evangelical atheist - i want to convince you that there is no god and that religion is damaging to society and should be abandoned and destroyed. but, these are the religious groups that i would be ost likely to show sympathy to, in order:

1. buddhists. buddhism should have been the only religion to survive the 20th century.

2. hindus & other polytheists, like european pagans. this is cultural, not intellectual.

3. animists, like native americans and central asians. animism is silly, but it has a helpful worldview relative to the harmful jewish model. i'd rather teach our kids that animals have spirits than that god put them on the earth for our use.

4. jews. dumb.

5. christians. dumber.

6. muslims. dumberer.