With that said, it astonishes me how so many of the faithful from any religion can claim to be so tolerant and yet in actions and words prove that they are not?

It amazes me how when someone from one’s own religion commits a heinous act that somehow they must not be true believers of that religion…yet when someone from another religion commits a heinous act that is just proof of what the other religion is really about?

It is a false belief that any one religion is about peace or violence. When it comes to the Abrahamic faiths it is both about peace and violence. It is obvious from the Torah, Bible and Qur’an that God states there is time for peace and time for violence. Destroying whole towns? Soddom & Gomorah? That was terrorism right there! Right and wrong is a human invention separate from God. Yahweh/Allah is a God of peace and violence as it serves His purposes.

As I have stated, I believe in the God of Abraham but I do not believe that my way is the only way and I derive this belief from scripture…the same scriptures that many that believe in the same God as I seem to miss. God works in mysterious ways so who am I to question?

At one time I was an agnostic with atheist leanings…I did not appreciate back then when the religious would try to convert me. As now as a religious person I still do not appreciate it…you see, no matter how religious you are, even if you are of the same basic belief system as them they will still try to convert you to their exact way of believing. I do not try to convert others so do not try to convert me…I am open to sharing and if what you have to say is truly the one and only way then your attempts at conversion would not be necessary…I would automatically have to believe, wouldn’t I?

this christian fascism is very scary ; and an example why the founding fathers delibertely made an consitiution seperate of church and state. If not we need to organize and resist this leviathan of fearand repression; before we are all tortured at Gitmo.

Peoplle shouldn’t be afriad of thier governments, governments should be afraid of thier people . V for Vendetta

Most Christians ARE terrorists or terrorist simpathizers. It’s the nature of the death cult that they follow.

Christianity’s history is one of mass murder, rape, torture, treason, hatred, and bigotry. ALL Christians today who have joined the death cult are in defacto agreement with the death cult that they joined. They know their death cult’s history and they ACCEPT it by being followers.

Christian terrorism is a far bigger threat to the United States and to the rest of the world than Islamic terrorism. Christian butchers have raped, tortured, and murdered something like half a million innocent people in Iraq — and they did it because they’re Christian.

Let’s face some other undeniable truths here: Had the people of Iraq also been Christians, this fascist terrorist Christian State here in the United States would have invaded, raped, tortured, and murdered just as many innocent people.

That’s Christianity.

Denial of what Christianity is all about is one of the major reasons why Christian terrorism and Christian fascism is allowed to contniue.

First of all, calling either side of the abortion debate “pro-life” or “pro-choice” is doing a disservice to either side. We are all pro life, ad all pro choice. If you really believe it, cal it pro- or anti-abortion. Why put a sweet little name on it?

Second, as to the definition of what constitures a terrorist: a terorist is someone who wishes to influence events or situations through the use of terror, not simply through violence. Terror means many things to many people. To a network exec, terror may be the loss of stock share or even his job due to a Christian boycott of his network. To a closeted gay man (or woman), terror may be the shame and embarassment that may be heaped upon him if his community finds out, or even that he will no longer enjoy the same rights and privileges as the rest of the community once he is outed. To a teen girl facing the prospect of a life ever changed because daddy couldn’t keep his hands off her, terror may be having to ever after care for and raise a product of daddy’s excesses because some people she never met and is never likely to said she couldn’t do anything about it. Or to a government research scientist, terror may be the thought of losing his life’s work or having it tainted becasue the government in power does not agree with his findings and thinks that they may be against Christian thought.

One last thing and I’ll wrap it up. The TV network not showing maddonnna? THat’s not a gov. agencies, the gov., as far as i know, did not censor Maddonna’s crusifixion. Under the 1st amendment a TV station has every right to decide what and what not to show and those who threatened a boycotte effectivly exercised their forst amendment right to protest. Perhaps the network was wrong to give in but they run a business and shouldn’t be faulted too much for trying to avoid bankrupcy. Maybe the protesters shouldn’t have protested, I know i didn’t apriciate it, they could have simply not watched the broadcast, but they have their rights too and I can not deny them that.

Thanks for you time,
Erin

Then you have a poorly adjusted adult at best in many cases “again not all but most”.

No compassion for parent or child Thomas, none at all.

I know someone is going to say BUT I AM ADOPTED. please step back remmber the stories of your peers. IF you had a happy ending how many did not? if you don’t know call them up.