Some might take that as hyperbole, but I'm convinced that is indeed the case. I'm sure that if it was legal there's plenty of Good Christians who would be thrilled to hunt Liberal Atheists for sport.
The directed & stereotypical bash of Christians is unwarranted (not the least of which is that the whole point of "Christian" is proselytizing, not killing). Goes in every direction; if you're going to bash like that, try the recent Greenpeace activist calling for beheading "climate change deniers" http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/01/25/greenpeace-activi...
When I was growing up, "Irish Catholic" was synonymous with "terrorist." Only in those days we had more words for terorists: "Libyan hijackers," "IRA members," and so forth.
I challenge your implication that "proselytising" is harmless. "Proselytising" in my experience has been nothing less than psychological torture and sustained verbal abuse.
You can have your religion, but please keep it to yourself. If I am curious, I will ask.
What the fuck? I said "plenty of Good Christians". Maybe I should have quoted the "Good Christians" part.
I have family and friends who are Christian and I have no problem with it. A person's relationship between themselves and God is their business.
Are you prepared to state that there are no Americans who consider themselves "god fearing folk" who would have no trouble with harming those "not like themselves"?
After all, we've never seen any sort of violence against blacks by "Good Christians", have we?
Or violence against gays, when there are plenty of preachers expounding upon how evil and sick they are, and what a threat they are to society? No, of course not. No Good Christian would do that.
And how many people have been beheaded by Greenpeace activists?
Really sorry to have offended you with my blasphemy /s
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.
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?
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.
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?
I'm not so certain that public lynchings for homosexuality wouldn't occur. On the other hand, there's plenty of people on the other side of the fence who'd see conservatives jailed and beaten (They'd not sully their hands themselves, just require the increasingly large nanny-state to do it) for disagreeing with their concept of 'progress'.
Maybe we just need to open the floodgates and let these factions kill each other off.
People are being pushed off buildings or beheaded precisely because of their beliefs. Today. Oh, sure, it's some war-torn region and done by extremists...but they weren't doing it more than a few months ago, and now the for-that-reason dead are numbering well into 5-6 digits and rising fast. It's real, it's growing, and there's many people who would "hunt you because of your beliefs" if not for the normalcy of rule & law.
Here you completely agree with my original point. But you're only willing to point fingers at the other dominant religion and take umbrage that your own flavor of Abrahamism could ever inspire bad behavior.
Some might take that as hyperbole, but I'm convinced that is indeed the case. I'm sure that if it was legal there's plenty of Good Christians who would be thrilled to hunt Liberal Atheists for sport.
http://reason.com/archives/2012/03/27/believers-atheists-wor...