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To: Question_Assumptions

But true Catholics don’t become homicidal when they fully embrace their religion.

It’s a pretty fundamental difference.


306 posted on 11/06/2009 7:09:41 AM PST by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: FreedomPoster
But true Catholics don't become homicidal when they fully embrace their religion.

Neither do Sufis.

As I mentioned earlier, the Albigensian Crusade, which killed between 200,000 and a million French for being heretics, was initiated by a Pope and it was a Papal legate who, when asked by a Crusader how he could make sure he was only killing heretics, was told, "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" - "Kill them [all]! Surely the Lord discerns which [ones] are his". Do you think the Crusader, following a Papal decree and asking for moral guidance from a Papal legate, wasn't fully embracing his religion? How about if he followed the Papal legate's advice?

It's a pretty fundamental difference.

OK. So let's go back to one of my original concerns which was Constitutional protection for religion. How does one distinguish a religion that promotes homicide or is a cult (and remember that the Old Testament includes quite a few calls for death) from a legitimate religion? Where do we draw a line between a legitimate religion worthy of Constitutional protection and a death cult?

320 posted on 11/06/2009 11:35:00 AM PST by Question_Assumptions
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