Faces of Fundamentalism [or the Taliban is the moral equivalent to Bible believing Christians]

http://www.lsj.com/news/local/011109_fundamental_1d.html ^ | Nov. 9, 2001 | Christine Rock

[The Energizer]

The Lansing (Michigan) State Journal has spoken: The Taliban is no different than Bible-believing Christians.

Guess I must have missed the last time a group of these Christians crashed planes into buildings filled with thousands of people . . .

[wideawake]

"You're always going to have the Osama bin Ladens. You're always going to have the Timothy McVeighs"

McVeigh was not a religious man. The comparison of the two in the context of religion is vacuous and misleading.

[OWK]

Certainly not all Christians are like the Taliban.

I know a good number of gentle, sincere, compassionate, and loving Christians (those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus)... and they are nothing like the Taliban.

[The Energizer]

Exactly.

Many have repeated that line about McVeigh. I don't EVER recall him justifying his actions on a religious basis. In fact, he had no use for religion until his execution day when he called for a priest to administer the last rites.

[AppyPappy]

Thank you.

And I even know some Libertarians who aren't child molesters.

[A CA Guy]

The author of this article must work for the anti-christ!

[Migraine]

Those who attacked the United States on Sept. 11 seemed to care less about souls and more about politics. Abortion-clinic bombers don't seem to be much different.

Yes, they are VERY different -- about as different as you can get. It's all in the basis: 1) abortion-clinic bombers are doing exactly the OPPOSITE of what their holy book (old and new testaments) tells them; 2) Muslim terrorists are doing EXACTLY what their holy book (Koran)tells them to. It's pretty simple, really.

[eastsider]

Guess I must have missed the last time a group of these Christians crashed planes into buildings filled with thousands of people . . .

Suicide attacks, no, but there are those who would advocate murdering abortionists, those who would actually murder abortionists, as well as those who would harbor the fugitive murderers. If such people don't really represent Christianity, who's to say the Taliban really represent Islam?

[OWK]

And I even know some Libertarians who aren't child molesters.

Do you know any libertarians who are?

[colorado tanker]

I get really tired of this condesending attitude that people of faith don't understand the "complexity" of the world. What nonsense. But it won't go away. The secularists claim that only a secular society can lead to world peace.

Funny. The last world war fought over religion was the 30 Years War in the 17th Century. Then came the Seven Years War, the Wars of the Spanish and Austrian Successions, the Napoleonic Wars, WWI, WWII, the Cold War, all fought over political and nationalistic disputes. I say the secularists ought to answer for a very bloody history.

[Khepera]

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[scooter2]

The author of this article must work for the anti-christ!

I'm don't think I'd go quite that far, but she certainly has no idea of the diffence between a fundamentalist and an extremist.

[mlocher]

there are those [christians] who would advocate murdering abortionists...

can you please be specific? i am aware of one (misguided)christian pastor who advocated and murdered abortionists. i make no appoloties for this man; but he was clearly in the wrong. all of my christian friends would be against the murder of abortionists.

[RnMomof7]

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[wideawake]

Suicide attacks, no, but there are those who would advocate murdering abortionists, those who would actually murder abortionists, as well as those who would harbor the fugitive murderers.

The issue here is the target. Abortionists kill innocent people for a living. They are not randomly targeted innocents.

Militant Islam targets the kafir - the nonMuslim. The WTC victims were murdered because they were either American or happened to be in America. It didn't matter if they were completely innocent of the supposed wrongdoings the terrorist ascribed to the US.

Abortionists are murdered as a response to the deeds they actually perform in their daily lives.

People who kill abortionists are not selecting random targets - although they are taking the law into their own hands.

[RnMomof7]

Suicide attacks, no, but there are those who would advocate murdering abortionists, those who would actually murder abortionists, as well as those who would harbor the fugitive murderers. If such people don't really represent Christianity, who's to say the Taliban really represent Islam?

The difference is Christians rebuke such talk..they do not condone the insane with their money or silence..We pray for change,we lobby for change..we do not ram planes into buildings to make a point......Islam is a religion of murder

[RnMomof7]

Contact Christine Rook at 377-1261 or clrook@lsj.com.

[Malcolm]

The only people who post garbage like this are those who have a negative view of Christianity to begin with, and want to exploit the Sept 11th tragedy to denegrate Christianity. I won't bother to defend the faith here; if you're one of the lost souls who equates the Taliban and other Muslims religious fanatics with conservative, orthodox Christianity, then my retort would be useless to the close-minded. If you know better, same thing. No Christian, without being in gross error of Scriptural instruction, would bomb an abortion clinic, nor commit violence against any innocent person, in comparison to Muslim trash, who walk into Pizza restaurants and kill innocent women and children. GET REAL!!!

[MetalHeadConservative35]

well..when it comes to killing its wrong as god has told us in the ten commandments...however...the reason i am for what is being done to taliban in afghanistan is like this.

you shed a mans blood by man your blood will be shed

in other words what they did to us...we now do to them for we are not in the wrong.

[RnMomof7]

My email to the lady(?)

Your article in the Lansing Journal ia an abomination! I am having a difficult time deciding if your agenda is to demonize Christians ,or excuse the Taliban. Either way you are a very foolish and blind woman, if you can not see the difference. When the reason you can not open your mail in peace,or ever fly on a plane again with out looking at the faces around you are because of the terror of some outlaw Baptist Church...then let me know!