Posted on 06/12/2016 7:59:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is the saddest day of my life. I can't even wrap my mind around the horror of what happened last night in Orlando, where 50 joyful dancing queers were murdered by a religious extremist. I'm sad -- devastated, in my soul -- about that; but I'm also sad that the events of Orlando have shattered my political beliefs, as I can no longer swear allegiance to a peace-love-and-unicorns progressive philosophy that only helps to get my fellow queers killed.
Yes, there is a war between religious fundamentalism and the spirit of love and tolerance. But we progressives here in America still labor under the delusion that the religion we need to combat is Christianity. But that's a strawman opponent, and has been so for decades. Since the 1990s, Christian extremists have essentially lost all their power, and are now toothless nonplayers in the "culture wars." Meanwhile, Muslim extremists, with guns, murder us, and on the left our only response is to bleat about "Islamophobia" and jump through hoops trying to explain away the self-evident religious motivation for the killings...
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Probably for the same reason they hate Camille Paglia. Feminists regard her as a sort of traitor.
Christian love is willing the good of the other which is not tolerating sin. It is not celebrating sin. But it does also NOT persecution and killing.
We are all sinners.
Ha! It’s as true as many years of observation have demonstrated. Anyone can think about it and see how well it fits their own observations. I, too, am awaiting other posts to learn more. Have fun with your liberal friends - ha ha Thanks
You’d think so. But maybe some of them like it?
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“Christians will pray for your healing to the Living God. Muslims will just slaughter you.”
Exactly.
We all sin. We all need to ask for forgiveness and try to abstain from sin. Some sins we consider ‘worse’ than others but they are all an affront to God. But we serve a forgiving God. Not so Islamists.
No eaty sandwich, no entry country.
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