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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (63782)	2/1/2008 10:48:40 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Islamofascists claim it is religious - and aimed at them. Oh its aimed at them alright but that doesn't make it religious. Well the wider war on terror is religious - On one side only... And those killers ARE considered heroes and martyrs by some Christians. You can find SOME just about anything. Why does some matter?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (63782)	2/2/2008 1:37:05 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 90947

Eh, the IRA - that Irish was a conflict of national groups - religious identity was just a marker for national identity. Ditto for the Serbians, Croatians, Bosnians. After a few generations of communist rule, most of the Orthodox/Catholics/Muslims were atheists anyway. Tens of millions of Christians believe abortion is murder, but you can count the number who have commited violence over this on your fingers. And those small number are not considered heroes but criminals by the rest. Do you question the religious motivation of the killers? And those killers ARE considered heroes and martyrs by some Christians. "Last Wednesday night, outside the Florida State Prison, there was a crowd of 50 anti-abortion fanatics. They proclaimed the executed physician-murderer Paul Hill to be a martyr too. In the early morning of July 29, 1994, Hill, a former Presbyterian minister, confronted Dr. John Bayard Britton at the Pensacola Florida Ladies Center. Hill was carrying a 12-gauge shotgun. First, he murdered retired U.S. Air Force officer James Barrett, age 74, who had simply driven Dr. Britton to this abortion clinic. Then he murdered Dr. Britton. " worldnetdaily.com But that's their opinion. What's yours? Is Hill a murderer or a martyr? Hill was a murderer. I gather Florida executed him. He certainly deserved that. Real martyrs didn't have blood on their hands. Like I said, there are tens of millions of Christians who oppose abortion. Hill had 50 supporters - I don't care if he had 500. Its still a tiny drop in the bucket.