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To: ToryHeartland
but one cannot really find a period in the last 1000 years where Europe has not been filled with hatred wearing the mask of religion.

Consider Elsie's present apparent stance: that we hate jews because God and the Bible calls for it, and gosh darn, much as we love them, there's nothing we can do. Maybe it's not a mask.

2,243 posted on 02/28/2006 9:56:57 AM PST by donh
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To: donh
Maybe it's not a mask.

I have to admit I long ago learned to steer clear of scriptural wrangling, which for me ranks as one of the most futile and moronic of pursuits. Normally, I hold with the view of your remarkable Mr. Thomas Jefferson,

"principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. I inquire after no man's, and trouble none with mine."

Alas, this does not mean that one is necessarily spared the inquires, or sermons, or prosletysing zeal of others. I am sometimes assailed (as we all are, no doubt) by Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons on my doorstep, or proponents of various other evangelical sects on soapboxes in the marketplace; I don't generally bother with such folk but, wherever possible, endeavour instead to simply ignore what is either the misguided missionary zeal, or the manifest ignorance, or the simple boorishness that is on display. Ulimately, I begrudge no one their faith or lack of faith--unless it tips into the dangerous political rantings of some of the Jihadi Mullahs, in which cases the criminal law is right to intervene.

If you are asking, if one scratches the surface, does one often find some very dangerous nonsense, then yes, that has certainly been my unpleasant experience.

And if you are asking if that is my experience of some of the profoundly offensive religious doctrines some espouse on these threads, then I must confirm that this is so.

2,245 posted on 02/28/2006 3:15:31 PM PST by ToryHeartland
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