python416
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Re: America's Christian conservatives are not much different than Islamist fundamenta
Parsing the language that I wrote doesn't indicate that I am hinging the non-validity of the "few and fair between" on the citing of one single person. I think you know what I meant.
Christian extremist don't accept other view of faith, and neither do Islamic extremists. Christian extremists want to see the second coming of God, and Islamic extremists want to have 70 virgin wives in the next life (or whatever it is). Both want violence against the other. Some want to send people strapped with bombs, some want to send Tomahawk missiles. Some do it for commerce, some do it for control. It is the same crap to me. This is my opinion and I am entitled to it.
The bottom line is that one group will value lives of the other group as less than their own group. Personally, I think an American Christian's life is as valuable as an Iraqi Muslim's life. Do you?
He said that they are "far and few between." You mention a single individual as proof that he is in error? It sort of gives his statement credibility. You don't have to identify individuals. Were this all you had to do, then there would be no discussion here. All you have to do is to look at the civilizations. When millions of Christians take to the streets and rejoice in some "god" inspired violence because Fallwell blessed it on international television...you will start to have a point. When Christian organizations inspire millions of Christians to burn down houses and government buildings and resort to mob prescribed murder over a cartoon depicting Jesus, then you will start to have a point.
Come to think about it, why is it that people here are trying to produce mostly peaceful Christian "fundamental" groups as some sort of comparison to mostly violent Islamic Radical groups anyway? Is it merely to show how the mind of the fundamental is related amongst religions? Isn't this common sense? But in acknowledging such truths are we now armed to dismiss the true dangers of the day or to bash Christians? It's simple exhonerations from facing the reality of today.
If we were to argue over who's religion is better (a rediculous, futile and highly insignificant quest), we would only have to look at the state they are in today and their beginnings.....
Christianity - born out of pacifism.
Islam - born out of war where one of the sects succeeded.
And through a history of on and off again religious violence by both, the re-definings, the learned tolerations and the absent of tolerations.....where are they today? Merely parading around that Christianity has its fundamentals is silly.
Parsing the language that I wrote doesn't indicate that I am hinging the non-validity of the "few and fair between" on the citing of one single person. I think you know what I meant.
Christian extremist don't accept other view of faith, and neither do Islamic extremists. Christian extremists want to see the second coming of God, and Islamic extremists want to have 70 virgin wives in the next life (or whatever it is). Both want violence against the other. Some want to send people strapped with bombs, some want to send Tomahawk missiles. Some do it for commerce, some do it for control. It is the same crap to me. This is my opinion and I am entitled to it.
The bottom line is that one group will value lives of the other group as less than their own group. Personally, I think an American Christian's life is as valuable as an Iraqi Muslim's life. Do you?