Reply #147: all true [View All]

[m berst]

Excepting that there is no monolithic block or common thread througout the ages linking all Christians. It would be silly to talk about Germans that way, for example. Many different things happen in many different places under many different banners. Yes, many bad things happened in Europe in the name of Christianity, but so did just about everything good that happened. Neither tells us anything in particular about Christianity. Crediting Christianity with the work of Bach, for example, makes no more sense than blaming Christianity for wars. Bach's work, though, was more closely related to the church than most European wars, and was much more typical of what the church did.

The reason I object to your description is not to defend Christianity nor any Christians, but for the sake of accuracy and for the sake of the power of our response to a very real threat. We are facing the threat of theocracy, and failing to parse out the elements within the religion that are responsible for this is to risk missing the mark with any remedy we apply. Small comfort it will be to any of us should we fail, and have nothing to show for our efforts except a reinforced simplistic historical view of Christianity as being the cause of all evils, including the demise of our Consitution. Even if we are right about that, we still lose our country if we refuse to see the true nature of the threat, because we see the danger as monolithic and all contained in a grab bag called "Christianity" and leave it at that.