01-25-2015, 01:43 AM
Lighten-up guys, or to put it in perspective, Happy Australia Day (26th Jan).
I don't believe in God, the sky fairies, or single definitions spouted as mantra. Whether it be a little Red Book, a Koran or a Bible it is all just cultural belief systems. It is Extreme monotheism of any belief system that causes friction, meaning the more you believe your belief-system is supreme ('God given') the less tolerant and pluralistic you become.
I would also respectfully remind you this is an international gun forum about a calibre that was half designed in Finland, with a marketing logo co-opting a Scandinavian mythical creature. And that Brownells and Smith & Wesson marketing departments spent money creating this video for reasons other than altruism.
By all means celebrate what it means to be American on an international gun forum, bearing in mind members like me then have to sift past the rhetoric looking for meaningful technical information. From an Australian perspective it is almost amusing that guns are seen over your way as proxy for a belief system. To us they are just an interesting but meaningless tool - for sport and animal husbandry.
I don't believe in God, the sky fairies, or single definitions spouted as mantra. Whether it be a little Red Book, a Koran or a Bible it is all just cultural belief systems. It is Extreme monotheism of any belief system that causes friction, meaning the more you believe your belief-system is supreme ('God given') the less tolerant and pluralistic you become.
I would also respectfully remind you this is an international gun forum about a calibre that was half designed in Finland, with a marketing logo co-opting a Scandinavian mythical creature. And that Brownells and Smith & Wesson marketing departments spent money creating this video for reasons other than altruism.
By all means celebrate what it means to be American on an international gun forum, bearing in mind members like me then have to sift past the rhetoric looking for meaningful technical information. From an Australian perspective it is almost amusing that guns are seen over your way as proxy for a belief system. To us they are just an interesting but meaningless tool - for sport and animal husbandry.