RE: Religious "moderates" and atheists
May 23, 2014 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2014 at 1:08 pm by Mudhammam.)
(May 23, 2014 at 11:45 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Clean up you own house first, dudes. The antireligious bigotry on display in this thread is disgraceful. KKK? Nazis? Com'n.
So it's bigotry just to use the words "KKK" and "Nazism" in a sentence?
I didn't compare those ideologies to Christianity EXCEPT to make the point that they all have a bloody history full of xenophobia and that it would be silly to continue association with the name, even if that's where the association ended. Remember, moderates and extremists claim to value the same creeds, the same books, the same ethereal figures. They often go to the same churches and play on the same volleyball team at church picnics. If I want to start a group, even something that has nothing to do with what I've mentioned, I sure as hell am not going to use the initials "KKK" and then hope people will see the difference. Do moderates really not want to stand out from extremists? Again, I wonder, is the moderate largely a myth?
But now that you've invited the doctrinal comparison of Nazism, KKK, and Christianity, I have to wonder: if you think killing and oppressing people of a different race is horrible, have you met Yahweh? He makes Nazi concentration camps look like child's play and he does it on the basis of how gullible a person is! (He likes extreme gullibility; does not have any use in "eternity" for the skeptic).