SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
According the Beeb (BBC):
At least 137 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police and hospital sources say.
At least eight blasts were reported. Three churches in Negombo, Batticaloa and Colombo's Kochchikade district were targeted during Easter services.
The Shangri-La, Kingsbury, Cinnamon Grand and a fourth hotel, all in Colombo, were also hit.
A curfew has been imposed from 18:00 to 06:00 local time (12:30-00:30 GMT).
The government also said there would a temporary block on the use of major social media networks.
No group has yet said it was responsible for the attacks.
Update:"At least 207 people have been killed and 450 hurt in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, police say."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @02:52PM (5 children)
I don't think Islam forked off from Christianity. Judaism was the religion of reference from the Caspian to the Red Sea at the time, and the story of the Jew Jesus was remarkable enough for other tribes to accept a world view of a single god and the corresponding Judaic mythology, where before they were believing in the traditional multiple, but also regionally common, gods.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @04:33PM (4 children)
is this stupid shit what they teach you in texas?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @04:54PM
What do you disagree with? Mohammedism originally compelled followers to face Jerusalem during prayer and displaced Arab paganism using a mixture of recycled Abrahamic myths and violence.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @08:58PM
I'm afraid that his Texan shit is right.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 21 2019, @10:41PM (1 child)
He's not wrong. Islam is basically the continuation of Judaism, and maintains its post-Exilic hardcore monotheism and genocidal mania. Christianity absorbed all sorts of weird pagan shit (as did Judaism before it) and Islam seems to see itself as some kind of return to "primitive Yahwism" as far as I can tell. Judaism itself has basically been Zoroastrianism under another name since the Exile, though they'll never admit it.
Maybe that's why Muslims hate Jews so hard, because their worst enemy is basically no different than them. Personally, I say to Hell/Sheol/Jahannam with *all* of them.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 21 2019, @11:35PM
Muhammed was a psychopath who convinced inbred Arabs that his epileptic seizures were supernatural revelation. He borrowed the Abrahamic stories but the Jews completely rejected him, blocking his rise to power.
LOL! [tabletmag.com]