randman,
This seems a strange subject coming from someone who's religious book advocates death by stoning for something as trivial as adultery.
Mark
I thought the same thing, Mark.
Many years ago I left the employ of an East Asian government because they demanded that I copyedit the translation of a "letter to the editor" in that nation's chief English language newspaper, a letter that supported the House of Saud's beheading of a princess and a commoner because of their love affair.
I rejected Christianity's mindless violence long before I had heard of Islam's. Grown-up people learn that bad people come in all colors, and so abandon racism; grown-ups know that both good and bad claim the imprimatur of God, and so reject all holy writs for death and destruction. Fools, fanatics, and fascists believe their warrants are true, and no one else's.
It is one of the great ironies of American history--but a fulfillment of Christianity--that the evangelical right has become the political voice of bloodletting and death.
God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, ”Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.’
--Ann Coulter, Fox-TV: Hannity & Colmes, 20 Jun 01
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