tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32734453.post813370050936988378..comments2024-03-09T00:58:19.040-08:00Comments on THE WORLD IS A STAGE: Radicalization?JAY JOHNSONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04209913484299156278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32734453.post-57946680702141670152015-12-11T14:51:22.005-08:002015-12-11T14:51:22.005-08:00(Long time reader of your blog, btw.) I'm sor...(Long time reader of your blog, btw.) I'm sorry, but your analogy of Christian terrorists to Islamic terrorists does not hold. There is *no* established mainstream Christian authority (Catholic, Episcopal, Baptist, Evangelical, Methodist, Pentecostal, etc.) that condones terrorist attacks on abortion clinics. <br /><br />On the contrary, there are huge populations (numbering in the millions) who belong to, live under, or support established Islamic denominations that do hold that Islamic law is the only legitimate form of governance, and which reject democracy and human rights values (such as equality for women, or liberty for LGBT). There are entire *countries* dedicated to this. Islam is not just the choice of which God you pray to, it is a combined socio-political-religious structure that is completely at odds with any governmental concept of equality or liberty. <br /><br />If you want to compare it to Christianity, you should compare it to, say, Catholicism in medieval Europe, when the church essentially ran countries as a tyrannical ruler. Christianity had its inquisitions and Crusades, but those were centuries ago. Now, between the reformation, revolutions, Magna Carta, etc., there is no established Christian authority calling for genocides, massacres, slavery, or mass rape. Why don't you try telling the Yazidi women that Jerry Falwell is just as bad as those Islamic extremists. <br /><br />Just because you can call Robert Dear an "extremist" does not make it the same thing. I am neither Muslim nor Christian, so I'm not defending anyone out of blind faith myself, I just think the progressive narrative you're spouting is dangerous in its own hiding of the truth.<br /><br />Respectfully,<br /> Lou<br /><br />Lou A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32734453.post-2927759179075343432015-12-09T17:33:18.934-08:002015-12-09T17:33:18.934-08:00Well said!Well said!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32734453.post-52290249182265251582015-12-09T11:16:02.541-08:002015-12-09T11:16:02.541-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Texas Ventshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16457507397641193702noreply@blogger.com