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in thread All I want for Christmas is:
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What about the Crusades? The Spanish Inquisition? What about Pro-Lifers bombing/attacking abortion doctors?
A philosophy that damns people to eternal torment only after death isn't exactly diametrically opposed to Islam's message in 76:4. For example,
"And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever." (Revelation 20:10)
"They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 13:42)
"This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matthew 13:49-50)
I caution against polarizing your message of "Christian love" against "Muslim hate." Fanaticism and ethnocentricism are dangerous to people of all faiths. For exammple, American fascism (I'm American and Canadian) is a clearly emerging form of fanatic ethnocentricism. To me, Muslims represent a foil used by the American government to scare its population into war. As a scientist (and thinking equally stereotypically), Christians represent the decay of scientific education and research. As a Jew/Buddhist, Muslims and Christians both seem overly fixated on literal interpretation of the Bible, and manipuating their bretheren towards political ends. (How Jews manipulate their bretheren is of substantial relevance, but notably, fundamentalist readings of the 'Old Testament' are sortof impossible because the language is dead.)
We, the Perlish, are 'doers' and 'collaborators'; stifling intercultural exchange is contrary to our overall agenda.
After all, TMTOWTDI!
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Re^3: All I want for Christmas...
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Dec 12, 2005 at 20:15 UTC | |
by NamfFohyr (Scribe) on Dec 12, 2005 at 21:19 UTC | |
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Dec 12, 2005 at 21:53 UTC |