
03-28-2006, 11:33 AM
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So the Christians fight back  Bring it on!
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Originally Posted by dicksbro
... or secular zealotry. I don't see those of faith ... Christian, Jewish or Muslim (or others) ... saying that people who do not have faith must give up that point of view or that they must celebrate those holidays. I think secular zealotry is a far greater risk.
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That must be the comedy post of the thread! Now, where should we start?
1. There is a Muslim-turned-Christian in Afghanistan who wishes that what you are saying was true
2. In post-Reformation England (1530s) the Protestants and Catholics burned each other for not believing in the same version of the same basic beliefs
3. The Algerian parliament has just approved a law banning the call to embrace other religions than Islam (in person and by any sort of publication).
4. The Spanish Inquisition
5. Neither I, nor my parents, were offered a choice of me attending religious education and worship at school. I was not given an alternative viewpoint that God may not exist either. I suspect most of you were in the same position.
I could make a really long list but I am sure you can see the point 
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