RE: Mt. Soledad cross ordered to be taken down
July 20, 2015 at 9:04 pm
(This post was last modified: July 20, 2015 at 9:07 pm by Regina.)
I'd take it with a pinch of salt
I don't know about over there in America, but here in Europe any time something "anti-Christian" happens it's not to please secularists, it's to please Muslims and other minority faiths. I think it's interesting how in that article Daniel Mach said "This is a victory for religious liberty" instead of just saying "a victory for secularism". It's not a victory for religious liberty if you are a Christian, but it sure is if you're another faith.
I think any Christian taking moral high-ground about "the poor" should be ashamed of themselves. Africa wouldn't be in the position it's in today with mass poverty and rampant HIV if scientists and secular teachers were sent there instead of priests, or even if every colonial power left it the fuck alone but still.
I don't know about over there in America, but here in Europe any time something "anti-Christian" happens it's not to please secularists, it's to please Muslims and other minority faiths. I think it's interesting how in that article Daniel Mach said "This is a victory for religious liberty" instead of just saying "a victory for secularism". It's not a victory for religious liberty if you are a Christian, but it sure is if you're another faith.
I think any Christian taking moral high-ground about "the poor" should be ashamed of themselves. Africa wouldn't be in the position it's in today with mass poverty and rampant HIV if scientists and secular teachers were sent there instead of priests, or even if every colonial power left it the fuck alone but still.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
