[BlazingArizona]

Again, here's an opportunity for us to show how we are NOT like Islamic fanatics. The opportunity is this: condemn the statement "the Jews killed Jesus". Condemn it because it's stupid. Condemn it because it detracts from the true meaning of the cross. Condemn it because it damages the soul of those who believe it. And condemn it because it shows the Islamic world the correct way for people in a religion to react to extremists in their midst.

Best comment in this thread, so far as I'm concerned.

[Qwinn]

What I don't like about the comment is that requiring Christians to condemn it is like asking them to apologize for it. I mean, yes, Christians will certainly condemn it, they don't have a problem with doing that, but when you elevate it to the point that they are -required- to condemn it, as if they don't condemn it that means they support it, that reaches the level where it's effectively a demand for an apology - an apology that they have no more obligation to make than Jews today are required to make an apology for killing Christ. That's my only problem with it.

Somebody was trying to make that point to samtheman earlier, by demanding that he condemn child molestation or stand assumed of being in support of it, but he missed the point being made.

Qwinn