Gay bashings, assaults on religious/racial minorities, thuggish right wing cops; not that I restricted my definition of “threat” to terrorism anyway. There’s plenty of oppressive laws and even more attempts to pass such laws. You are ignoring the fact that Christians vastly outnumber Muslims in America. And that it is the Christians who control the levers of power in this country. I haven’t even knowingly met anyone Muslim, much less been harassed or attacked by them. They are a nonissue for me, personally; an irrelevancy.
Terrorism is only such a big deal because most Americans are such utter cowards. I’'m far more likely to die in a car accident or a bad fall or an animal attack than by terrorism.
It’ll go well with my new seasonal T-shirt. It’s OK, but I like ones that promote support and loving “Be good for goodness sake” is brilliant, especially this time of year. This one seems a bit more mocking of religion, which I try to avoid. Although I would buy a billboard that says “Jesus loves you thiiiis much” and showing him on the cross.
Yes, just as obnoxious as the ones who put up the religious ones. And not nearly in the same class as the Mormons and Witnesses. Last one I talked to (mostly I just ignore them and don’t answer the door if I see two suited teen-agers out there), I told him that you have been trying for 2000 years and haven’t succeeded, why bother.
On all the social issues the liberal-progressive view has the upper hand.
Abortion-nationally legalized
Gay Rights-Gay marriage is legal in half a dozen states and civil unions/domestic partnerships in countless more
School Prayer-No longer mandated
Freedom of Speech-Virtually all porn except pedophilic ones are available
Gay bashings are largely verbal-anti-gay violence is not by religious fanatics but by teenage thugs who’d beat a person up for any reason. Same for attacks on religious/racial minorities-many neo-Nazis are neo Nordic pagans for example. The “thuggish right wing cop” are largely the exception not the rule-after the Rodney King incident you can pretty much guarantee if a police beating happens Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton will quickly whip up a mass protest-riot.
They killed what a dozen or so people over twenty years while Muslim terrorists killed 3,000 in the 9-11 Attacks plus dozens more in other attacks.
None, I do that. In fact I regard the gift giving and celebrating with family to be if anything subversive of Christianity; that’s about family, generosity and acquisitiveness, not Christianity.
Say what? It’s a nationwide terror campaign, with websites full of death lists, harassment campaigns, death threats to family members, songs and T-shirts celebrating the bombing by Eric Robert Rudolph; that sort of thing. A few crocodile tears shed after the fact doesn’t qualify as anything but political cover.
And very difficult to get or effectively unavailable to many women. And we’ve condemned many women worldwide to forced childbirth or death with our anti-abortion “Mexico City Policy”.
And illegal in others. And civil unions aren’t anything more than the modern equivalent of segregation; bigotry written into law. That’s the point.
And still forced on people here and there, and only held back as much as it is by constant effort.
Only with constant harassment and the occasional arrest for people with unpopular tastes like BDSM.
Oh, nonsense. Gays get beaten and killed on a regular basis, and not just by teenagers. And you are just indulging in the standard routine of bashing humanit yin order to defend religion; somehow, raising someone from childhood with speeches about the Absolute Evil of homosexuals doesn’t instigate violence. The people doing the beating are just born evil - religion can’t possibly be at fault.
Don’t be ridiculous. Thuggish cops assault, rob and kill people on a regular basis. Anything happening in response to that is a rarity.
Personally, I don’t disagree with you, but I’ll add I can’t think of a single fanatical crusade that didn’t begin with different variations on those same last 5 words.
Christianity vs Islam vs Atheism; might as well be Sonic vs Gyros vs White Castle:
Stuff your gullets and what you spout out 6 hours later smells about the same.
And so do quite a few scientific and social revolutions. The fanatical crusades are so fanatical and destructive in large part because they don’t have truth on their side. You don’t need to be a fanatic to believe something when you’re actually right. Are people who inflexibly insist that the sky is blue and not plaid dangerous fanatics?
Point well taken.
(…and I don’t have the heart to tell Der Trihs that the sky by me is gray today. It might look blue later and there’s a good chance it will look black tonight. I look forward to being able to see subtle variations and nuances of gradual change, from beginning to end to beginning again, and all in just 24 hours. If only there was enough time in the day to enjoy it. )
