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Way to go you posted a dead video..
Way to go you posted a dead video..
Christians intolerant? You don't say?
Hindus have killed 100s of Christians over the past few weeks... but don't let that change your own "intolerant" tune....
Yeah, Christians have never killed people of other religions for answering the god question differently.Hindus have killed 100s of Christians over the past few weeks... but don't let that change your own "intolerant" tune....
any religion makes you hate and kill people
Two wrongs don't make a right.
And those "Christians" that you describe with your statement, do not Christendom define. Christians are to bear the fruit of the Spirit. They should embody attributes of love, peace, kindness, forgiveness... etc...
But again, don't let that stop you and others in the anti-christian crowd from painting with broad strokes... You all are good at it.
Let me try...
Hitler, Stalin, and Kim Yong-il were/are all athiestic mass murderers (who killed in the name of their beliefs).... I guess that must mean that the atheistic 'religion' is defined by hate and murder ....
Geesssh... the intolerance of some people around here is ridiculously ignorant...
Including yours.
Mine doesn't!! Woo Hoo!
So THAT'S why I have this insatiable addiction to going on random shooting sprees in crowded places. And all this time I just thought it was because I'm an angry sociopath...
Nice argument. You're the one who painted Hindus as murderers in your post to justify the Christians interrupting dude's prayer.Two wrongs don't make a right.
And those "Christians" that you describe with your statement, do not Christendom define. Christians are to bear the fruit of the Spirit. They should embody attributes of love, peace, kindness, forgiveness... etc...
But again, don't let that stop you and others in the anti-christian crowd from painting with broad strokes... You all are good at it.
Let me try...
Hitler, Stalin, and Kim Yong-il were/are all athiestic mass murderers (who killed in the name of their beliefs).... I guess that must mean that the atheistic 'religion' is defined by hate and murder ....
Geesssh... the intolerance of some people around here is ridiculously ignorant...
if he's posting an instance that actually happened "a few weeks ago" then how is that "painting" exactly?
I'm stating two wrongs don't make a right...
Your initial comment, on the other hand, cast all Christianity in negative light.
My initial comment presented the context of what is going on in India this very moment. Most Americans aren't even aware this is going on. Churches have been burned down, pastors dragged out and killed, whole villages wiped out. Yes, intolerance is one of humanities' most de able attributes. To suggest, however, that this trait is tied only to religion is fool-hardy, reprehensible and an outright lie.
Every religion has its extremists, the zealots who bring shame upon the larger community. The majority of any religion's followers view their religion as an aid to mental peace, instilling good values in children, etc. But the 10% or so who are loony are the ones who end up causing bad blood between religions.
Christianity is no different. Religion is a private practice and should remain as such. The fact that ins utions (like the Church) make it a public/social practice, and encourage people to apply religion to areas where it has no business being applied, such as politics, education, etc is the root of the problem.
Christianity (or Hinduism or Islam) is not the problem. It is the Church (or temples or mosques) and their leaders who need to be reformed.
Hindus have killed 100s of Christians over the past few weeks... but don't let that change your own "intolerant" tune....http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7214053.stmChristian mob
No side is left blameless in this conflict. After the initial attacks on church ins utions and the shops and homes of Christian families, Christian mobs responded in kind.
A Hindu woman walks through her destroyed village
In the village of Gadapur, Hindu families, standing amid the charred rubble of their homes, told me how a mob of tribal Christians had descended on them, forcing them to flee into the forest, before destroying every shop and dwelling in the village.
For those now living in makeshift tents, or in the ruins of their old homes, aid from the state government has been limited: a few tents, some plastic sheeting, food and cooking utensils.
I could find no source claiming "hundreds" of Christians have been killed by Hindus.
Thousands of Christians have been made homeless, however, and there have been reports of deaths on both sides.
The fighting appearst to be over the murder of an anti-christian Hindu demagogue, apparently by Maoist guerillas. The guerillas deny the killing and many of his followers blame Christian attackers, due to the number of death threats against the demogogue by Christians.
Not exactly a shining moment for either religion.
If a holy war were to ever break out, I think I would lean to the Christians. I'm not sure why, perhaps because I was raised Lutheran (am now Agnostic)...but these christian bashers really annoy the out of me.
"tied only to religion" is false.
"tied often to religion" not so much.
"tied more often than Phenomanul would probably be comfortable admitting to" ...?
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What shining moments does religion have? 9/11? Black slavery? The war in Iraq? The crusades?
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I will stop there. I think I have made my point. If anyone doubts that I could fill hundreds of posts with similar bits, I can keep going.
Religious folks are just like everybody else-- some are very good, some are very bad, and many are somewhere in between.
Actually some good came out of the Crusades. In fact, it saved western civilization.
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
- Mohandas Gandhi
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