Hmmmmm...Christine, re
I have noticed some of these hate mongers on the Web when I have done research on religious topics, and they make me sick, quite frankly.
That figures that that hate mongers would show up when you do religious searches. What does that tell us? I hope I don't have to spell it out.
What it is, I think, is that in most religions there are groups of very polarized conservatives within that belief system who have decided that their way is the One True Way, and that everyone else is evil, or at least lost and ignorant, who does not believe the same way.
Oh. I see. Does it bother you, Christine, that a Jew may see you as "lost" (as in spiritually lost, according to the religious beliefs of a Jew), and ignorant (as in ignorant of the beliefs that a Jew would have)? Or that a Muslim may consider a Jew to be "lost" and ignorant? Or that a Buddist may consider a Christian to be lost and ignorant? I'm sure there are many people of all sorts of religions who may believe that I, for instance, may be lost, in the sense that I may not believe the same things they do. I guess it's never occured to me before that some people might be bothered by that.
These radical conservatives within religions are the people who cause hatred and violence in America, Northern Ireland, India, Israel and every other place where there are religious wars of some sort going on.
Oh. Of course. The religious war in America. Like those Jonesboro, Arkansas shootings, probably. Is that the war you mean? Silly me, I didn't realize there was a religious war going on in America. But at any rate, I think it's clear that Christians bear some responsibility there for those tragic deaths of those little girls. The boys who did the shootings? Their parents probably didn't love them. But we can't punish the boys for that. Those boys just need a lot of love and affection. They didn't know what they were doing. Maybe they thought they were doing the bidding of what this "largely Christian" society taught them to do. They should be made wards of the State, and given private tutors and a free college education.
Many of them are Christians, incidentally, although that does not have much to do with anything.
Well, I wouldn't go that far. There're undoubtedly several conservative Christians mixed in there with the other more tolerant ones. Watch your back when walking around there.
And all the Jewish statesmen of Israel until Netanyahu are admitted terrorists, but they see themselves as freedom fighters because they see their position as the morally defensible one.
Who could condone terrorism?
While I don't personally condone violence of any kind, we will have terrorists until we examine the root causes of their struggle, and somehow remove the inherent injustice. Terrorism is a natural reaction everywhere for groups who have been hurt badly and feel powerless, and feel they have no alternatives to get attention, or right the scales of justice.
Ohhh, okay. So you're saying the Statesmen of Israel prior to Netanyahu were struggling against "the inherent injustice", which was the "root causes of their struggle". And terrorism was the "natural reaction everywhere for groups who have been hurt badly and feel powerless, and feel they have no alternatives to get attention, or right the scales of justice.
If you say so, Christine. So we should try to examine the injustices the Jews are suffering from at the hands of the Arabs? Okay.
I firmly support full human rights for Jews everywhere in the world, and I think they were treated horrendously by the Christians for hundreds of years.
Really? Wow. Like, where's the justice? I wonder if Clinton knows about this. Maybe we could, for instance, bomb a few more German cities a few more times until your righteous wrath is sated. How many more burning piles of German bodies in the streets of cities that the USAF bombed will it take for your wrath to be quenched?
I think that much of the hatred of them here comes from very, very conservative Christians who have misinterpreted the New Testament, and are very narrow and judgmental, and full of hate. As I said before, I think that is just awful.
Of course. That goes without saying. Some conservative Christians are probably brought up by their religious parents to hate Jews. I haven't personally ever heard of any, but then my circle of conservative Christians only covers about 10,000 people in the US and Scandinavia. No doubt I'm sheltered.
Wouldn't it be ironic if all the Christians who practice intolerance and hatred and self-righteousness are actually on their way to Hell?
Yeah, that'd be funny!! Yuck yuck. Burn in hell, man.
I think you and Emile have should have full religious freedom to believe whatever you want,
Christine, that's very tolerant and generous of you, but the founding Fathers of the United States of America already thought of that, and have GUARANTEED religious freedom in the first issue mentioned in the Bill of Rights. So, like, it's already taken care of.
..but somehow the polarization and hurt on the planet have to stop, and TOLERANCE seems to be where that starts.
Well, except tolerance towards conservative Christians, of course. Let's not get too carried away with our liberal compassion. |
