Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> JimLewandowski Wrote:
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> > Are people generally inclined to be
> suspicious or
> > hostile to any other church organization
> (parent
> > umbrella, not suborganizations)? IOW, pick
> other
> > sects of the same monotheism. Is the same
> > sentiment there? If not, why not?
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> You ever heard of Anti-Semitism?
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No, I live in a cave.
Oh and have a
> quick look
> at the history of the Reformation, Protestants
> were as quick
> to burn disbelievers as the Catholics - not to
> mention Witches.
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Moral relativism? I'm shocked that so many "academicians" bring moral relativism to something like this. FTR, I don't CARE which group commits which misdeeds. I do care about calling out those facts and having the evildoers own up to what they've done. If people want to support evildoers, they have that prerogative.
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> Normally this sort of reasoning is called
> 'blaming the victim'
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I've been blamed for having a hate crime (Jew and swastika painted on my door) committed against me by my neighbors. This situation is wholly different because of the word "fiction".
> and considered unfair. I guess Blacks must have
> been up to something
> to incite such hostility in Whites, and
> homosexuals, and Women....
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Not following. Did whites commit atrocities against blacks? Is it fair to blame ALL whites? No.
Did the CC commit past and present wrongdoings? If you think the fact that the CC did multiple times over multiple epochs relieves them of any responsibility for simply what people THINK and BELIEVE (IOW, no one has been "forced" by DVC to have their beliefs put into physical action against the CC), that's a nice climate in rewarding the perpetrators. I think that's far worse than blaming a potential "victim".
JL
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Shephard of Hermas - 2[79]:2 Now this rock was ancient, and had a gate hewn out of it; but the gate seemed to me to have been hewed out quite recently. And the gate glistened beyond the brightness of the sun, so that I marvelled at the brightness of the gate.