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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (90060)12/10/2004 10:00:02 AM
From: aladin  Read Replies (1) of 793917
 
Mary,

There are millions of potentially violent Christians just as there potentially violent any types of people.

You missed my point entirely, I was in no way defending Christian violence. What I was attacking is the suggestion of moral equivalence between fundamentalists of various types.

Lots of people, let alone fundamentalists are potentially violent. A very few Budhists and some Christians have behaved violently over the past 30 years, but lots of Muslims have.

The PC crowd takes to calling Islam peaceful and refer to its being hijacked by a few extremists, but sometimes admit to 'few' being as much as 15%. We have Arab countries where opinion polls place killing children (if their Israeli) as an acceptable practice.

This discussion had a lot of equivalencies being made about fundamentalism in general. My point is moral equivalency misses a teeny, tiny issue called scale.

What do I mean by scale? - the level of violence from modern christian fundamentalists is less than the population as a whole and can be attributed to issues of sanity. Christian fundamentalists who happen to be insane do not really reflect an underlying problem.

Islam has a huge, gaping underlying problem and no one wants to admit its there...

John
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