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Reply #15: True. The whole outburst is just propaganda against religious freedom. [View All]

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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-19-10 03:34 PM
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15. True. The whole outburst is just propaganda against religious freedom.
Edited on Thu Aug-19-10 03:37 PM by JDPriestly
If Christian extremists can limit the rights of Muslims, they can limit the rights of other minority religions -- until they become a minority themselves. And the more they limit the rights of and oppress others, the sooner they will be shunned and become a minority.

That is because there is an inconsistency between the central message of Jesus and of Christianity which is love and the tolerance for others that arises from love and hating people regardless of whether they are Muslim or Jewish or Hindu or Buddhist or whatever. Hating other religions or trying to limit the freedom of people who believe in another religion is abhorrent to the Christian message. Jesus was a Jew but praised the Good Samaritan. Samaritans were of a very different religion than Jews. The beliefs of Samaritans (who apparently believe in the first books of the Old Testament) and the Jews were viewed as very different in Jesus' day.
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