Monday, September 29, 2014

It is Time for Peaceful Christians to Speak Up for Coexistence


http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/29/time-peaceful-christians-speak-coexistence.html

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According to the Religious Right, Islam is the enemy, and ISIL, or ISIS as it is often called, is a manifestation of all the hate and intolerance inherent in the world’s second largest religion. When President Obama says that ISIL is not Islam, the Religious Right quakes in outrage. Islam is the enemy! Sarah Palin thunders as she tries to remember which state she is in.
But while Religious Right figures are quick to assign religion and religious bigotry to ISIL, they are blind to their own. And while they lambast the Qur’an as the source of much of this intolerance, they ignore the cries of It is interesting that people should have so difficult a time imagining a repressive and intolerance Christianity when there are so many examples of it in our own time. I am speaking not only of the largely Protestant Religious Right, but of the Roman Catholic Church under Pope Benedict XVI, who said “truth” trumps tolerance.their own god to smite the unbeliever.
pot kettle syndrome permeates the right wing to quote Bill Clinton "takes a lot of brass to accuse someone of what you do".  I believe most allow themselves to believe this while forgetting this they don't want to hear that they put all their tithes in a republican hate basket being able to blame another helps some reconcile their own guilt you can only fool your subconscious for a minute than reality seeps through I would have to think those who know are just what the evangelical God ordered.
Santorum told the Daily Beast the other day that Christianity has set aside the whole conversion “by the sword” routine and discovered that “religious liberty, freedom of conscience, and that persuasion is the way to spread the faith.”
But this is the same Rick Santorum who doesn’t believe in separation of church and state, who attended an event that told non-Christians to get out of America and who told Puerto Ricans that they must speak English if they want to be Americans.
The Baptist may not be holding a bomb or a gun, but he is more than happy to deprive non-Christians, and even non-Baptists, of their religious freedom, and Santorum himself has said that mainline Protestants are not really Christians at all.
we can't call those like him Bible thumpers so what do we call them Bible debunkers because what rhetoric comes from them is not taught in my Bible.