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To: broadsword
Religious extremism of any stripe is a threat to a free society. Both the Taliban and the Talibornagain ought to be rejected.

"...nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Funny, I don't see "(Except for those dirty Mohammedans)" in there. Neither do I see that in the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Promoting religious bigotry is unAmerican.

221 posted on 12/08/2004 11:55:31 PM PST by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: Chemist_Geek; Chronos; MarMema; johnb838; Pyro7480; dsc; ultima ratio; NYer; Antoninus
Fulton Sheen, Pope John Paul II, St. Francis and Mother Theresa are classic Christian extremists. How are they "a threat to a free society"? Please tell us specifically.
222 posted on 12/09/2004 12:00:01 AM PST by broadsword (When Islam creeps into a human society, oppression, misogyny and terror come hard on its heels.)
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To: Chemist_Geek

"There are fanatic Christians today... the people who have bombed abortion clinics and shot doctors who perform abortions, for instance, are religious terrorists are they not? What about Fred Phelps?...Religious extremism of any stripe is a threat to a free society. Both the Taliban and the Talibornagain ought to be rejected."

There is really no excuse for drawing that kind of false moral equivalence.

The unbalanced individuals who have violated the tenets of Christianity by murdering people associated with abortuaries are deplored by the vast majority of Christians. They are not praised, nor encouraged, nor protected by Christians.

Further, rather few of these individuals have emerged, giving the lie to the proposition that Christianity fosters them.

In contrast, Islam has engaged in terrorism and depredations for the past 1400 years, at times overrunning significant portions of Europe. This latest escalation is in its 4th decade. The number of victims is huge and growing. And Muslims not only praise, encourage, and protect terrorists, they fund them.

You look at the faithful practice of an evil religion on the one hand, and aberrent behavior that violates the tenet of a good religion on the other, and somehow arrive at the conlusion that the two religions are morally equivalent.

Nothing that Christian "fundamentalists" believe or advocate is half so dangerous to a free society as the false moral equivalence.


223 posted on 12/09/2004 12:43:58 AM PST by dsc
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To: Chemist_Geek
I am still waiting for your substantive reply to post 222. How are extremest Christians a threat to free society?

In answer, you must exclude abortion mill bombers, as they are clearly NOT following the Christian faith and precepts, while Muslim murderers and terrorists ARE clearly following the faith and precepts of the Koran, Shariah and Hadith.
252 posted on 12/09/2004 11:57:43 AM PST by broadsword (When Islam creeps into a human society, oppression, misogyny and terror come hard on its heels.)
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