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Ask your Christian family & friends what they think of casual comments imputing them with a propensity toward religious violence.

dragonwriter 12y ago
I'm Christian and I don't think anything pstuart said about "plenty of Good Christians" was either inaccurate or imputed a propensity toward religious violence to Christians generally, merely indicated that the human propensity for such things was not especially lacking in the Christian community, and which could be expected to erupt from some segments of that community were it sanctioned by law. Which any honest Christian would have to admit is well-grounded factually.
pstuart 12y ago
Are you trolling or stupid? I never said all Christians are violent. I said that there are plenty (that's a number that means "enough to matter") that are. Time to own up: are you a Christian? Is that why you are butthurt and making up lies about my intent?
- ctdonath 12y ago
  You didn't say "all", but you did say "plenty" when there aren't any. When implying mass murder, that is indeed a sore point - when there IS another [sub]group which IS, today, beheading Christians and pushing homosexuals off buildings for their views.
  - pstuart 12y ago
    > If someone casually insults what I hold dear Ok. You're a Christian. So you're completely biased which comes through in the way you distort what I say, e.g. > You didn't say "all", but you did say "plenty" when there aren't any. When implying mass murder[...] Aren't any? You have no proof and history suggests otherwise. And it wasn't mass murder that I was suggesting, it was targeted attacks. By your username I'm betting that you're Irish Catholic. You've been conditioned to never question the faith and demonstrate that by attacking everything I've said. We all know the Church has never done anything wrong at all. Ever! But if it makes you feel better, I think your new Pope is great -- he walks the talk and espouses the "good stuff" about Jesus. His only failing to date has been to condemn blasphemy, which is a horrible mistake. Lastly, I offer this thought experiment: do you think any of the islamic terrorists we read about consider themselves "Good Muslims"? Can people be devout and do horrible things colored by that way of mind?

dragonwriter 12y ago

I'm Christian and I don't think anything pstuart said about "plenty of Good Christians" was either inaccurate or imputed a propensity toward religious violence to Christians generally, merely indicated that the human propensity for such things was not especially lacking in the Christian community, and which could be expected to erupt from some segments of that community were it sanctioned by law. Which any honest Christian would have to admit is well-grounded factually.

pstuart 12y ago

Are you trolling or stupid? I never said all Christians are violent. I said that there are plenty (that's a number that means "enough to matter") that are. Time to own up: are you a Christian? Is that why you are butthurt and making up lies about my intent?

ctdonath 12y ago
You didn't say "all", but you did say "plenty" when there aren't any. When implying mass murder, that is indeed a sore point - when there IS another [sub]group which IS, today, beheading Christians and pushing homosexuals off buildings for their views.
- pstuart 12y ago
  > If someone casually insults what I hold dear Ok. You're a Christian. So you're completely biased which comes through in the way you distort what I say, e.g. > You didn't say "all", but you did say "plenty" when there aren't any. When implying mass murder[...] Aren't any? You have no proof and history suggests otherwise. And it wasn't mass murder that I was suggesting, it was targeted attacks. By your username I'm betting that you're Irish Catholic. You've been conditioned to never question the faith and demonstrate that by attacking everything I've said. We all know the Church has never done anything wrong at all. Ever! But if it makes you feel better, I think your new Pope is great -- he walks the talk and espouses the "good stuff" about Jesus. His only failing to date has been to condemn blasphemy, which is a horrible mistake. Lastly, I offer this thought experiment: do you think any of the islamic terrorists we read about consider themselves "Good Muslims"? Can people be devout and do horrible things colored by that way of mind?