BamaD -> RE: 12 dead in Paris (1/8/2015 12:22:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kdsub igor I believe you and I agree here somewhat that if a radical Christian group based in the US were throwing acid in little girls faces or shooting them in the head....and or....invading a school and murdering helpless little boys and girls... and or...setting bombs in subways killing hundreds...and or...cutting off the heads of journalists....and or... placing bombs on airplanes.... and or... sending suicide bombers into family restaurants...and or... setting off road side bombs... and or...blowing up buildings with thousands of people....There would be a tremendous uproar of not only Christian leaders but Christians themselves. This radical group would receive no aid or indifference from fellow Christians and within days would be pointed out and destroyed or captured. This is not happening in the Muslim world in my opinion... We are always talking of the tiny minority of Muslims that are radical... but what is also reality is there is but a tiny minority of Muslims willing to aggressively speak out and take action against the radicals among them. Butch Where was the outrage of Christians in the mid nineties when Westboro Baptist was openly advocating violence towards the GLBT? As a queer activist in the nineties I regular got hate mail from right wing Christians saying things along the lines that they prayed that I got raped. What made it even more obscene was that I was 15 at the time, and that was an easy to know fact. I was still on Westboro's list of website and queer advocates to attack. When Matthew Sheppard was killed radical Christians advocated that kind of violence. Where was the outrage of Christians when Christian radicals had hitlists on the internet for abortion doctors? Might I add with names crossed out. In fact most often when I would discuss these concerns with Christians it was written off that these radicals weren't really Christian, so not much needed to be done. Thankfully times have changed since that very very dark time, but not because there was an uprising of a majority of Christians. The closest we came to that was when Fall well blamed 9/11 on the gays. And most of the outrage to his statements wasn't directly towards the attacks being blamed on the GLBT. It was more about how evil the Taliban and jihadists were. What say you about the violent past of Christianity? The crusades come to mind. Christianity isn't an innocent religion, it has caused it's share of bloodshed, prejudice, and marginalization of people. Glass houses. That being said I think that radical Muslims are in no way justified for their actions. I do have extensive human rights concerns regarding Sharia Law. However, I have similar concerns about conservative Christians, particularly the quiverfull movement. Where girls are homeschooled and sheltered from main stream society and taught to believe that they are less than men, should always be subservient to men, that they should have no choice in who they are married to, and no choice in regards to child bearing. Oh and also they have to cover their bodies, are not allowed to wear pants, and are not allowed to cut their hair. Yet, even though I am not a Christian I KNOW this is not a common interpretation of scripture. I KNOW that Jesus was not an advocate of violence or prejudice. However, as it is with most people in a group when a minority strikes out an co-opts the groups principles, it is often a minority that speaks out or acts to end the behavior. So I don't fault Muslims who are coping with war and political upheaval in their own countries with not spending a whole lot of time or energy decrying the actions of radicals. They've got better things to do. There have been plenty of times where Christianity has been twisted for violent ends in peaceful Western countries and there was little to no outcry by the majority of Christians. Wrong, Christians all over were outraged by both of the incidents. For example I was working a Christian supply store which supported my refusal to deal with them, and since I was the only representative for that area they were against to dealing with them. Never have I heard any Christian leader condoning murder. I do not know where you get your information, but it is wrong.
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