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To: faqsnlojiks who wrote (5401)	2/27/2007 10:17:38 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) of 20106

Thank you for that thoughtful response. It seems we have lots to agree on, maybe most things in fact. You seem very informed and confident with regards to your religion, which I consider a positive attribute on your part. I'm pretty sure there was a miscommunication on at least one key part of our exchange at this point. You say that I showed you my ignorance of Christianity. There is no doubt that I am ignorant about some things and with your level of devotion to your religion you could probably identify the exact points of my lack of information but you missed on this one. You said: "and you won't find people that claim it as part of Christianity," I resonded that I not only find people claiming Christianity and devoted Christians are to blame for things in the world but I commonly find that to be the case. Maybe you meant to say that devout Christians would not use their religion for a justification to commit heinous acts. That may very well be true at least from your perspective. I know people who have argued that point and would love to do so more, I am not one of them. I would never expect a decent devout Christian to use the saving grace of Jesus to make claims that all things are permissible because they are forgiven a priori. That certainly isn't the right place to identify my area of ignorance, I have discussed it at length with Christians and read quite a bit for my self on it. I get it. I didn't say I found devout Christians who would use John 3:16 as a directive to make all things permissible. Quite to the contrary, I have heard anti-Christians make that claim. I have heard lots of people say this and I thought I pointed out that it was usually anti-religious people. Such people claim many bad things should be blamed on Christianity. Such people have been doing so for thousands of years. Why do you suppose we history books full of depictions of religious persecution perpetrated against Christians? It is because in most cases people claim Christianity causes badness in the world, and people use that as a justification to hate Christians. I think we can agree that is simply common sense. I didn't expect you to dispute that issue at all. The issue I was trying to bring to light for you, is that much of the information I see presented on forums like this has been gathered by and presented anti-Muslims and from an anti-Muslim perspective. Throughout this strand of discussion I have attempted to persuade you to look at this as you would look issue as you would skeptically look at any issue presented by anti-Christians. The single question I have had for myself is whether any persons on this thread are able to do that. If not what is the barrier? If you say its Muslims who commit heinous acts in the name of Islam, then I figure someone is chasing their tail and I'm not sure which one of us it is.

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