You [as type] not specifically, yet yes directed to you

Submitted by trans-parere (Canada), May 10, 2008 at 23:38

Lactantius

My responses to your post follow your "reasoning" which you got by reading a book. You "claim" that your "book" [the words written therein] gives you the right to subject others to your dogma. Naturally my responses are ad hominem. You have internalised your religious mythology and hold it externally as the truth. Your [Christian] behavior is exactly that of the Islamist who hold others of different faiths and social opinion exactly as you do. You can quote the Bible till the cows come home but it doesn't amount to anything close to the truth as the history of Christianity, empire, colonialism and warfare argues your truth.

I'm not attacking you the individual rather the you the representative of your religious mythology and you the progeny of the history of that product. The history of Christianity has been absolutely as deplorable as that of Islam. You both have set yourselves up as an authority over others, you deem others inferior and take it as a right to disrespect, minimise the value of, out-right eradicate using the most inhumane acts of violence, and treat contemptuously the faiths, beliefs, mythologies and histories of other people.

The history of mankind and his abominable use of religion to manipulate, distort and abuse has left a trail of tears that can be traced back to the inception of religion as a social construct. As a religionist you can not hide from your inherited responsibility nor from your advocacy. I don't do you a great wrong Sir. You have done me and mine a great wrong from time beyond living memory.

You do not have the right to call Islam or any other religion a false religion or anyone else's God a false God. You do not have the right to behave with sublime arrogance no matter what you read in any book.

Now if you want to discuss Islam and how it's being interpreted by some today I believe as a social product it's on the table and open for discussion. BUT if your going to hold yourself and your personal dogma and mythology as a relevant argument you had better make damn sure your clean of any sin and not reeking of past and present crimes against humanity. O.k.

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