[Taiku]

Germany’s history of religious intolerance is well known (my murdered relatives can attest to that) -— this is just one more chapter in their book of shame. Mr. Cruise, like the Rebbe, like the pope, even like ahmadnutjob, have every right to believe what they want to. Where I draw the line is foisting those beliefs and practices onto unwilling others by laws or by force. Merkel is no better than the islamofascists taking over her country on this issue....

[Taiku]

oops...I meant Kammerbauer, not Merkel

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Europe in general has never been (and still isn't) very good on the whole issue of religious freedom. The Jewish people aren't the only ones who've suffered for their faith, though they are the ones who have done so most systematically and severely. The Roma people, whose religion would be considered pagan, have also suffered the depradations of religious persecution and pogroms at times. The Thirty Years War (and associated other conflicts) involved a lot of religious intolerance between Catholics and Protestants, to say the least. The various Baptistic groups and other Bible-believing dissenters (Waldensians, Bogomils, Paulicians, Anabaptists, etc. etc.) were routinely persecuted by Catholics throughout European history, and by the Calvinists after the rise of Protestantism.

Caesaropapism and Papocaesarism are anathema to human liberty.

[wolf78]

Germany’s history of religious intolerance is well known (my murdered relatives can attest to that) -— this is just one more chapter in their book of shame. Mr. Cruise, like the Rebbe, like the pope, even like ahmadnutjob, have every right to believe what they want to. Where I draw the line is foisting those beliefs and practices onto unwilling others by laws or by force. Merkel is no better than the islamofascists taking over her country on this issue....

Nonsense. The question here is not freedom of religion but property rights. After all, the US military also decided not to support the makers of "Hot Shots!".

[Michael81Dus]

LOL, your ignorance is showing. Did you bother to read the story? Am I entitled to use US Army facilities for making a movie? I don´t think so. I may ask for it, but if the US government declines, I gotta live with it. Same for Mr. Cruise.