enggirl
Acrobat
Seabird said:Of all the things in the world that are bad, how could anyone see so much hatred in a religious symbol only meant in good intentions? No one is forcing their beliefs on anyone. I can't believe most people even care if it exists or where it is. There are too many extremists trying to read things into things making a big stink out of it.
The guy who brought up the Koran thing was trying to make a point- most times when it's something Christian, or Judeo-Christian, people get all shitty and start hollering about forcing beliefs, freedom, etc. But when it's another religion, they usually start defending its right to exist, religious freedom, and
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I know the radicals are annoying, but this monument really isn't hurting anyone nearly as much as the fighting. If you don't want to see it, don't look at it. If you think it was a waste of money, think how much more tax money will be wasted to move it.
I think one of the reasons this is burning so many of us is BECAUSE so many of those "bad" things going on in the world are often directly linked, in one way or another, to a predominant religion trying to stuff their ideas/mores/values/etc. down the throats of anyone nearby, especially those who don't hold those religious faiths. This country is mostly Christian, yes, but, once again, it is about the minority being able to say NO to the overwhelming majority trying to change them.
Those of us you call "extremists" are pretty much everyday people who have something to fear from what we see as extremists on the other side...and this, a religious symbol in a public courthouse, is an extreme thing. It's a symbol of one man who is trying to force his religion on others. It belongs in a church--none of us "extremists" are trying to say that it should be taken out and destroyed (Dixie Chicks albums, anyone?), just put where it belongs and taken from where it does NOT belong.
Again, that's why the Koran quote is such a hotpoint: There are so many christians, and only so many muslims in this coutry. It is hard to fight the majority, especially when the highest office in the country is held right now by a man who seems to think that he has a direct link to his god's ear. I doubt that, anytime soon, christianity will be under direct attack/threat and in danger of disappearing in the US. But other religions have been under attack since day 1. Hell, even before day 1, the native americans here were under attack--by christians. So this is why people get all "shitty" when the subject is chirsitanity. It's david vs. goliath (to use a christian story), and david needs more protection from goliath, or he'll be swallowed up.