Actual headline:
The Agapepress helps spread some holiday spirit. Let’s face it though, no article can ever hope to live up to a headline that outrageous.
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Actual headline:
The Agapepress helps spread some holiday spirit. Let’s face it though, no article can ever hope to live up to a headline that outrageous.
If you don’t agree with absolutely everything I believe, you aren’t a REAL Christian, you know. You’re just a dead, liberal church.
And they wonder why “secular society” is so “hostile” to them!!! When you sound like an extremist arrogant nut, folks are going to treat you that way.
Now this is why I don’t like religion in general and fundamentalism in particular. These people are proud to have an us versus them philosophy, they are our enemies and they make it very difficult to work together to improve the lot of a humanity which includes them. Its not a great leap from this kind of talk to the belief that a holy religious person is good and right in knocking down the world trade centres. This is why the universal philosophy must be “Fairness First” – all religions must accept that their religion is dangerous unless they acknowledge it is first and foremost about the golden rule.
Well said, Randi!
This should be obvious to a thinking person. That once a person’s rigid faith beliefs become a political crusade…it’s possible to become a DEADLY one.
And Christians thinking that they are safe because America is an insulating force, is a mistake.
9/11 was the mother of all hate crimes, and the perpetrators didn’t exclude ANYONE from being killed.
Even one of the eight wonders of the ancient world that had stood for thousands of years was destroyed.
I grieve for the World Trade Center and those Khybur Buddhas, those were testaments to man’s creativity and tenacious belief in monument and triumphs over the natural world.
But they were ultimately destroyed by religious arrogance.
We are witnessing the Crusades, but now at the business ends of ICBM’s…not swords
Yes, religious zeal is a scary, scary thing.
And we may yet be as doomed as those statues and the WTC.
I remember the last frame of the classic Charleton Heston movie, “Planet of the Apes” when he realized he had been on Earth all along and not an alien world. He’d cried out that ‘they’ had finally caused a nuclear Holocaust after all.
It shocked me and made me cry. And I was fourteen at the time.
It was the Statue of Liberty, broken and tilted to the side, sunk halfway into Liberty Island.
If that beautiful lady and what she has stood for, falls…I will truly despair.