There's that language again.
One religion's pious views another religion's pious as terrorists or zealots.
And then I wonder, are we adopting their vocabulary and judgments as prisms through which we observe other people and their ways of life ?
It's tough for me to shed that way of thinking, I was brought up Midwest strict protestant, my first impulse on so many things springs from church lady spinsters admonishing my Sunday school class about right and wrong and then I come home and get more viewpoint from dad who experienced it a generation before, and grandpa who got it a generation before that. As a kid I got an earful about the Catholics, and then I heard about missionaries getting murdered (and worse) for their efforts in foreign lands trying to make things better for the 'pagans' (bad) or 'wrong thinking' (way worse) people they encountered there.
And we are definitely getting a very distorted view of religious practice in the US and then assuming religious folks everywhere are similarly free to cherry pick and slacker their way through whatever faith they find most convenient. It don't work that way in many places. I'm confident most of these folks coming here and causing offense could easily pass a polygraph test regarding their sincerity of belief conclusively and not 1 in a 1000 US Christians could equal their scores. And those 999 Christians are writing the playbook we are expecting everyone else to follow.
One religion's pious views another religion's pious as terrorists or zealots.
And then I wonder, are we adopting their vocabulary and judgments as prisms through which we observe other people and their ways of life ?
It's tough for me to shed that way of thinking, I was brought up Midwest strict protestant, my first impulse on so many things springs from church lady spinsters admonishing my Sunday school class about right and wrong and then I come home and get more viewpoint from dad who experienced it a generation before, and grandpa who got it a generation before that. As a kid I got an earful about the Catholics, and then I heard about missionaries getting murdered (and worse) for their efforts in foreign lands trying to make things better for the 'pagans' (bad) or 'wrong thinking' (way worse) people they encountered there.
And we are definitely getting a very distorted view of religious practice in the US and then assuming religious folks everywhere are similarly free to cherry pick and slacker their way through whatever faith they find most convenient. It don't work that way in many places. I'm confident most of these folks coming here and causing offense could easily pass a polygraph test regarding their sincerity of belief conclusively and not 1 in a 1000 US Christians could equal their scores. And those 999 Christians are writing the playbook we are expecting everyone else to follow.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
