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To: TimF who wrote (63714)	1/30/2008 8:50:34 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 90947

I talk about the Spanish inquisition being a long time ago, so you come up with Emperor Constantine. Your heading in the wrong direction... Perhaps you miss the point. This stuff flares up, dies down, flares up again, ..... Wars of the reformation, ok well your getting closer but not by much. How many examples do you need? Not all of history happened in one instant. Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. IRA is more nationalist than religious. Yeah? Then why are all the IRA members Catholic and all their non-military opponents (military as in forces sent in by the UK) Protestant? And it isn't a response to a situation when "an outrageous insult toward Christians is perpetrated in the name of art or literature" What's that mean in English? If a Christian had shot and killed Andy Warhol when he exhibited that crucifix in a jar of p**, would or would that not count? "Murders of doctors who do abortions?" Hardly a mass movement, and again not a response to insulting Christianity or to art or literature. So you think their acts have nothing to do with beliefs taught by certain Christian sects? All of which isn't very relevant to the point that its pretty hard to find a violent reaction from Christian these days in response to someone insulting Christianity.* I'd agree with that. There are religions that are reluctant to reach for the sword or gun and Christianity has become one, probably because of the influence of the Reformation and Enlightenment. It's hard to support violence when freedom of conscience is also considered a fundamental of belief. Violent reaction from Islamic radicals? That's not so hard to find. A fraction of Muslims are like the Orthodox Jews or the Religious Right- -they have no use for anyone who does not believe as they do. Many Orthodox Jews stone drivers in Israel who drive on the Sabbath. The doctor-killer Christians come largely from that Religious Right. If you wish to defend the Religious Right, you may do so. I am personally sick to death of them. The author basically says Christians don't tend to have a large violent response when someone insults their religion. You point out the distant past, and situations that aren't based on insults to religion. Remember Serbia and Bosnia? The genocide? The NATO intervention on the side of the Muslim Bosnians to stop that genocide? Wasn't that religious based? And recent?

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