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When Prayer Kills
Halleyscomet/Wakefield:
I wonder how US Evangelicals will respond to this little news item. My guess is that they'll ignore it, or try to spin it as "OMG! Teh Liburs sent a man to jail for praying!"
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE52N63B20090325
--- Quote ---PALERMO (Reuters) - A Tunisian pilot who paused to pray instead of taking emergency measures before crash-landing his plane, killing 16 people, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court along with his co-pilot.
The 2005 crash at sea off Sicily left survivors swimming for their lives, some clinging to a piece of the fuselage that remained floating after the ATR turbo-prop aircraft splintered upon impact.
A fuel-gauge malfunction was partly to blame but prosecutors also said the pilot succumbed to panic, praying out loud instead of following emergency procedures and then opting to crash-land the plane instead trying to reach a nearby airport.
Another five employees of Tuninter, a subsidiary of Tunisair, were sentenced to between eight and nine years in jail by the court, in a verdict handed down Monday.
The seven accused, who were not in court, will not spend time in jail until the appeals process has been exhausted.
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DK:
Isn't Tunisia a mainly Muslim country? So obviously he was praying to the wrong god. Well, actually, its the same god, just the wrong name.
JoelWhy:
--- Quote from: DaveKidneys on Mar 26, 2009, 11:27:07 AM ---Isn't Tunisia a mainly Muslim country? So obviously he was praying to the wrong god. Well, actually, its the same god, just the wrong name.
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lol...yea, I think the Christians finally have the proof they've been looking for that their god can kick the Muslim god's arse! And, the fact that it's the same entity makes the Christian god all the more powerful!
Halleyscomet/Wakefield:
--- Quote from: DaveKidneys on Mar 26, 2009, 11:27:07 AM ---Isn't Tunisia a mainly Muslim country? So obviously he was praying to the wrong god. Well, actually, its the same god, just the wrong name.
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Not according to Jack Chick:
Allah had no Son
And the oh so enlightening http://www.chick.com/information/religions/islam/
JoelWhy:
--- Quote from: halleyscomet on Mar 26, 2009, 11:39:29 AM ---
--- Quote from: DaveKidneys on Mar 26, 2009, 11:27:07 AM ---Isn't Tunisia a mainly Muslim country? So obviously he was praying to the wrong god. Well, actually, its the same god, just the wrong name.
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Not according to Jack Chick:
Allah had no Son
And the oh so enlightening http://www.chick.com/information/religions/islam/
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Ooooh, a moon god! No one told me that is an option. I am now formally renouncing my agnosticism and will start worshiping the tides. (But, only the tides controlled by the moon; those solar tides are the devil's tool!)
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