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To: Little Ray
So if Aztecs decided to start sacrificing again to appease Huitzilopochtli and Tezcatlipoca, or drowning babies to bring the rain from Tláloc, its okay?

No.

Not all cultures are equal. Not all religions are equal. Some need to be suppressed.

It's not the religions, it's the criminal behaviors such as human sacrifice that need to be suppressed - and severely punished.

Religion is about beliefs. Any belief (even liberalism!) is tolerable and harmless, because a belief is comprised of thoughts and words.

But going beyond words and harmless rituals - to sticks, stones, etc. which break bones - is obviously unacceptable. Civil law such as ours must override religious "belief" (actually actions committed in the name of belief) when it comes to human rights (such as the right to be free from physical assault)

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258 posted on 07/20/2007 11:38:27 AM PDT by repentant_pundit (Go Jorge Go ! And don't ever come back.)
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To: repentant_pundit

Belief without action is dead.

If you are not trying to advance Islam by all means at your disposal (i.e. Jihad), you aren’t a very good Muslim. Islam is pretty specific. Believers are to fight the infidel until they convert, are subdued and pay the jizyah, or, until they are dead.


298 posted on 07/23/2007 5:49:47 AM PDT by Little Ray (Rudy Guiliani: If his wives can't trust him, why should we?)
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