re: #162 researchok

As for your comparison remarks, they too are absurd. If you are so hell bent on talking about ‘nasty religious elements’, how about some prioritizing. There is an epidemic of rape in Africa as well as the perennial genocide- or is Christians and Jews only who offend you?

I didn’t say Christians and Jews offend me. They don’t, not at all. I’m quite fond of both religions, in fact.

But some people who are Christians offend me by being intolerant of other belief systems. Some people who are Jews offend me by being intolerant of other belief systems. Some people who are Muslim offend me by being intolerant of other belief systems. Some people who are [insert any religious, political, or economic belief system here] offend me by being intolerant of other belief systems.

I don’t know how much more clear I can make it.

Now, when discussing American public policy I don’t have much call to address my remarks to people halfway around the world who don’t even speak my language. It’s the intolerant people who claim to be Christians who I see as being a much more significant factor, and towards which I tend to address my remarks.