Pogo
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And pretends that it's comparable, and current.
Hmm... "comparable", well you may have a point. Is it worse to stone someone to death, or to put a victim through a flesh press until their skin pops open? Is it worse to hack off a victim's head yelling "allah akhbar", or to set them on fire, still alive, bound to a stake in the town square with their children forced to watch?
Arguably you have a point that one exceeds the other.
"Current" of course is just a question of time. The ignorant barbaric fanaticism of the Inquisition needed to go, and did. This ignorant barbaric Muslim fanaticism needs to go, and will. We can only stand where we are in time. But in reality both of them needed to not happen in the first place.
As for what's current, is 1998 close enough?
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This is the one who lived...
Too old? How 'bout 2009?
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Stoning is for primitives. Burning is old hat. Nah, we've moved on technologically to guns and bombs.
Here's the difference between you and me: we both share a Christian background and culture, but I'm willing to acknowledge the skeletons in that closet, and you're not. I'm willing to acknowledge the perils of fanaticism, regardless what's behind it, and call it what it is.
So much for "apologism".
These are isolated incidents, I can show you dozens of pics like that from Syria and North Africa today alone.![]()
Of course you can. And I could dig up Holocaust mass graves, et cetera. They all have one thing in common: religious-based vigilantism. That was my original point. And somewhere in the Maghreb there's a Muslim version of Pam Geller putting up these photos to make the same point in reverse.
Every incident is "isolated". What's not isolated about them is a religious zealotry driving them to do this.
IOW the problem is not this religion or that religion or any religion. It's fanaticism. So to pretend it's an aberration when we do it and "the nature of the religion" when they do it is pure hypocrisy.
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