So Rosie O’ said that radical Christians are as dangerous as radical Islamists. You can say that there aren’t as many radical Christians around, or even that they are not as dangerous as radical Islamists to you. Heck! you can say, if you wish to disagree with me, that they are not really dangerous. What she didn’t say was that Christians, as in ‘all Christians’ were as dangerous as radical Islamists.
And I am really pitting myself here, because what the heck am I doing reading these stupid blogs. But you know, it’s getting tiresome, Christians are not persecuted, at least not in this side of the world.
Link available upon requests (like you need it to know what I am talking about).
So, as I madly parse, I’m guessing that Rosie O’ said “radical Christians are as bad as radical Islamists” and someone else pointed to that as “another” example of persecutions of Christians?
Is that right? Because if so, I’ll check “C – neither is correct” as my answer.
Radical Christians are entirely just as dangerous as Muslim. The only difference is that the radical C’tans are living in a free nation, with plenty of beer and TV and a big ass gut to keep them from going out and killing heathen.
It’s similar to the debate on whether Fascists or Communists are at the far end of the spectrum or not. At the radical level, pretty much everything converges back on itself when it comes down to it in regards to personal liberty and free thought.
See, why bother reading blogs like that anyway? The blogwriter describes herself above all as a “daughter of the King of Kings.” Gag me.
Rosie’s right. Radical anything is scary as shit, and I don’t care if I get crap for saying so. I say we ship them all to some remote island and let 'em duke it out while we normals of all creeds just keep on living.
Oh for fuck’s sake. I agree the religious right in this country are busybodies, bigots, and idiots, and they’re penchant for hating those who are not like themselves makes them a pain in the ass.
But get some badly needed perspective. Where, at worst, fundamentalist Christians cause harm by not allowing condoms and other birth control, the Islamic fundamentalist do that, and have embraced terrorism as a means of spreading their religion.
I can’t believe you’re making me stand up for fundamentalist Christians.
Nobody has mentioned “fundamentalists”, or “religious right”, the word of the day is radical, as in guy who bomb clinics and shoot doctors. And if you don’t consider terrorism even the feds disagree with you.
How many people has the Christian fundie opposition to condoms and gays caused, by helping to spread AIDS ? How much suffering has forcing women to bear child after child until it kills them caused ? They would do less damage if they were terrorists IMHO.
And then there’s the fact that radical “bring on the Rapture” Christian fundies, the people who want to end the world, happen to have a great deal of power in a country with a huge nuclear arsenal. The Islamic fundies are just an irritation; it’s the Christian fundies who will bring down civilization if any fundies do.
