RE: How do religious folks reconcile violent concepts in "peaceful" Abrahami...
April 11, 2017 at 10:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2017 at 10:29 pm by Regina.)
(April 11, 2017 at 10:22 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: . . or looking at a plainly worded bit of Scripture and declaring it means precisely the opposite of what it says . .
"The true meaning was lost in translation! Only the original Hebrew version* was poetically beautiful enough to convey the TRUE message!"
*Replace "Hebrew" with "Arabic" if talking Quran. Muslims play this game too.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"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
