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Tue Sep-12-06 12:34 PM
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"Muslims can convert to Christianity here!" |
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Edited on Tue Sep-12-06 12:35 PM by deadparrot
Church sign stirs anger among local MuslimsLAUREL -- "Muslims can convert to Christianity here!" read the sign Monday in front of the Congregational Church on Laurel Road. It was an invitation that the church's pastor, K.C. McCay, admitted he didn't expect anyone to accept. But coming on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it was bound to stir a response. And it did. http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060912/NEWS/609120341
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:37 PM
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Some smartass in Laurel should simply switch "christian" with "muslim."
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:39 PM
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3. They hate us for our freedoms |
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Freedom to be a second class citizen if you're not a christian. Can Wiccans convert too or are we just shown to the gallows?
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:55 PM
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:30 PM
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18. Right back at ya Rhiannon |
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:09 PM
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The innate sexuality of an Earth Mother based religion is inherently unsettling to all of us uptight Christians - sorry, but our comfort zone is more important than your First Admendment Rights.
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:39 PM
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2. Delete "Muslims", insert "Republicans". Fixed. n/t |
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:40 PM
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:40 PM
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4. Maybe 10 commandements weren't enough: "Thou shalt not be a dick" |
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would have been a valuable precept to include on the list.
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:40 PM
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5. My gawd. The Congregationalists???? |
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United Church of Christ is the most liberal Christian sect. I cannot believe that this will not have some repercussions from the mother church org. I'm very surprised about this. It's extraordinarily insensitive.
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:45 PM
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From the article, I get the impression that this church is not affiliated with the UCC.
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:11 PM
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13. Well, if they are a Congregational Church, I think they are. |
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However, in good liberal tradition, the UCC may not want to act on this.
BTW, I attended Congregational church for 13 years.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:05 PM
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29. Not all Congo churches joined the UCC, and some have left it |
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I grew up attending a UCC church. Most of the congo (congregational) churches were UCC, but one in the area wasn't.
When we got our new minister, in about 1979, our church was a UCC church, but still used the word "Congregational" instead of UCC. When he proposed a change, the old people got up and threw a fit. At the time, the UCC was talking with the Disciples of Christ about the latter joining the former. The old people didn't want to be confused with that denomination for some reason (I know little of the DOC).
In the Detroit area, there are a couple of congo churches that aren't UCC. The one on Southfield RD in Southfield/Lathrup Village is not UCC.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:55 PM
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58. They are congregationally managed, hence the name and the wide |
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spectrum between liberal and conservative.
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:53 PM
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7. "Christians" could start following the words of Christ there... |
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But I ain't holdin my breath for THAT either.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:14 PM
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"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).
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Wed Sep-13-06 12:59 PM
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63. I mean ALL the words, not just the ones that fit their mood of the moment. |
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It's no great skill to take a single passage and claim that it justifies whatever hateful shit you were already gonna do anyway- EVERYONE has been doing that for 2000 years.
But actually attempting to live a LIFE according to Christ's philosophy is a rare and seldom-seen thing.
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Tue Sep-12-06 12:54 PM
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8. Gonna file this one under 'ehhhh' |
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Edited on Tue Sep-12-06 01:14 PM by rpannier
It's a sign, nothing more-or-less, He's not threatening to kill or beat you if you don't convert. Monotheistic religions, like Christianity and Islam are trying to convert all the time. Some threaten you if you don't, others ask you to convert and then move on. This sign is hardly that offensive.
edited for spelling
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:08 PM
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10. Hawking religion on the sreet, like snake oil, is offensive to me. nt |
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:10 PM
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12. Associating 9-11 with Islam isn't offensive? |
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Let me guess. You're white and christian?
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:25 PM
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living in Korea (have for a decade), married to a Korean. Have 4 daughters: 2 full-blooded Koreans from her previous marriage to her late husband, 2 daughters that are mixed race Kor-Am.
Anything else you wish to know?
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:18 PM
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34. Update - America has changed |
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Since you haven't lived in the middle of it for the last ten years, you really can't imagine what's really happened. The comments of just the last few weeks should give you a clue - macaca, little guatemalan fellow, black folks can't swim, Bush telling a black mother she ought not sell her son's medal on ebay, it goes on and on and on. If you recall the Birchers - this crowd makes them look reasonable. It's really bad, and this is just one more in a long line of bigoted insults that get worse every year.
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:12 PM
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14. You don't hardly get it do you? |
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This sign is hardly that offensive after attacks yesterday on mosques in California
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:16 PM
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I'd say the sign contains the very same sentiment as the attacks on those mosques.
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:23 PM
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16. So the sign in Florida is linked to the Mosque attacks in California |
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And you know this how???
There is no reference to that anywhere in the article -- either by the minister or his detractors. People are upset because they feel he's using 9/11 as a springboard to get his message across. And that is unfortunate that it appears he did. But it's still a sign. He didn't threaten to kill anyone. He didn't put "Muslims are evil!" or "Muslims are going to hell if they don't convert!" or anything like that.
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:30 PM
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If a group of klan members burn a cross in front of a white church in Alabama, and some restaurant in Oregon puts up a sign that says "whites only," they might not know each other, but there's certainly a connection.
"He didn't threaten to kill anyone."
Neither does a burning cross, technically.
"He didn't put "Muslims are evil!" or "Muslims are going to hell if they don't convert!" or anything like that."
Both are directly implied.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:04 PM
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28. If you think that's not a "nyah nyah nyah" provocation, you're blind. -nt |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:57 PM
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60. And there are none so blind as those who WILL NOT see.... |
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:38 PM
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20. Garish, inappropriate, and embarrassing. |
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:39 PM
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21. I'm sure they're as grateful for that "opportunity" as Indians and |
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Hawaiians were in years past.
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:42 PM
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23. The interesting question is though... |
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How would the community of reacted if there had been a mosque on a public road and on 9/11 they put a sign out front which read "Christians can convert to Islam here!"?
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:49 PM
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25. Similar outrage - perhaps amplified 1000 times. Did muslims put |
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a sign on the street hawking their religion? I did not hear about it. Did you see or hear about it?
I would wager that if that had happened, it would make headlines across the country and and the RW blabber mouths would be talking about an Islamic invasion for months.
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:44 PM
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anyone who would put that grabage up, on 9/11 no less, isn't really a CHristian, so there!
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Tue Sep-12-06 01:55 PM
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26. Muslims are the least likely group to convert to Christianity, because |
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giving up Islam is considered just about the worst sin there is, especially among ethnic groups that practice conservative types of Islam.
Only the fundies still try to send missionaries to officially Islamic countries. Most of the indigenous Christians in places like Pakistan were converted during the colonial period, and other majority-Muslim areas in the Middle East (Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Palestine) have Christian populations that have been there since the earliest days of Christianity. Indonesia is the most populous Muslim majority country in the world, but not all its ethnic groups are traditionally Muslim. (The most well-known example is Bali, which is majority Hindu.)
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:00 PM
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27. How healing! how respectful! |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:08 PM
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30. What's wrong with this? |
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Why is this offensive? The sign is on the church grounds and I don't think there are any forced conversions going on (nowadays at least).
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:14 PM
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31. It's unnecessarily confrontational and nasty. |
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By the way, nobody said they haven't the right. Only because you have the right to do something doesn't mean doing it is a good idea.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:16 PM
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32. All religionists are mentally ill |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:23 PM
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38. No, they're not. Not anymore than Republicans are. |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:19 PM
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35. Well, I didn't argue rights but |
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Christianity is a proselytizing religion and some sects think members must actively convert the "unsaved".
It is confrontational, but nasty? Is it worse than Church bells ringing?
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:25 PM
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41. Jesus H. Q. Rhyste on a pink yellow-polkadotted nuclear powered pogo stick |
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You think this is just like ringing church bells?
You truly ARE blind.
Go see sandnsea's post #37. And try to answer it.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:43 PM
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50. Okay really what do you want me to type? |
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Is this back and forth on the path to some things are better left unsaid because they stir up negative feelings?
That someone somewhere may read this sign and extrapolate that the nice "Muslim-looking" fellow who lives next door needs to convert on else?
What do you want? Do you want a blind condemnation over a semi-anonymous message board about how stupid this is?
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:50 PM
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53. What you already typed was informative enough, thank you very much. -nt |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:52 PM
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57. Is that a brusque electronic shoulder turn? |
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Anyway thanks for the debate. I guess the confrontational and poor taste arguments are why this sign should never have been posted.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:18 PM
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33. Given the times it is in-your-face and "my God's better than yours" |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:22 PM
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36. But, the "My God is better/bigger than yours" |
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is inherent in every religion and in most groups which offer exclusivity.
But, I find this not as distasteful as * invoking his God every time he speaks...
Would it be acceptable if the church posted "Non-Christians can convert here"?
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:24 PM
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39. Well gee - the sign DIDN'T say that |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:34 PM
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46. The sign should say PANCAKE BKFST 9/22 and shut up about conversions :) |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:22 PM
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Would you get it if the sign said that? Or "Catholics convert here" Some days...
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:26 PM
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43. I wouln't get upset even if it said "Godless |
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people like genie weenie are going tocgoing-to-burn in hellfire unless they convert here"...
But, that's just me, which is why I asked for some explanation on the offensive nature of the sign...
Would you get mad if I had a sign on my private property which stated "Christians Unconvert here"?
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:31 PM
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45. None of that is the issue |
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Because we aren't talking about hypothetical signs that might or might not offend you - personally. You intentionally avoid the intent of the specific sign in question, although I can't for the life of me figure out why. But if you want to play that game, I guess you don't have a problem with Phelps and his "God Hates Fags" signs either??
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:34 PM
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47. Actually your post 37 is a hypothetical sign |
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and in the post you asked me if I had a problem with those signs.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:41 PM
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is an analogy to a very real sign.
Is it that you don't feel the same way to Muslims, that you do towards Jews and Catholics?
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:49 PM
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52. My analogy was very real as well. |
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I have seen Unsaved come in and find Jesus signs near churches.
But, the question is why do you want to read anti-Islam bias into all my posts? To belittle my questions and my responses?
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Because we think you know full well how bigoted the sign is and you're pretending otherwise.
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Tue Sep-12-06 03:16 PM
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61. I can't equate the bigoted sign with actual |
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attacks on Muslim persons or Mosques.
But, this sign is something which needs to be dealt with rationally. Emotional arguments "That's wrong" just don't cut it and I was simply stirring the pot to see if (anyone cared) to make a cogent argument on the incorrectness of the sign. The only legal recourse would be anger words of inciteful language I guess.
Religions, and not religious persons, are bad. They contain many incorrect ideas (and a few good ones-You shall treat your neighbor as yourself being a good one) but they are simply outdated and incorrect ideologies.
I've absorbed and ignored so much religious bigotry over the past 6 years, but I can't put this up with say the Pope and the French King calling for the Albigensian Crusade against other Christians or the theft of young Slavic Christian Men by the Ottoman Empire to form the Janissaries.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:26 PM
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42. Do you see anything wrong going on here? |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:29 PM
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44. Nope! I burn bibles and crosses and flags and copies |
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of the constitution and the Communist Manifesto and images of the Glorious Leader all the time...
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:39 PM
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48. You dodged the question. |
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Is that picture a klan meeting? Are the people involved in that photo doing anything else than burning a cross on private property belonging to one of the persons in the photo and with his consent?
Obviously if the people pictured go off and injure or kill someone or cause destruction to someone's property or burn another cross on someone else's property they have committed a crime.
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55. Presumably, yes. Klan meeting. Private property. |
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But nobody is talking about whether or not it is illegal. We're talking about whether or not it's wrong.
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:25 PM
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40. Boy are they all gonna have egg on their faces when they find out |
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Tue Sep-12-06 02:52 PM
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56. "McCay said he doesn't expect any Muslims to take him up on his offer." |
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That shows he is trying to be deliberately provocative. jerk.
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Tue Sep-12-06 03:18 PM
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62. Wow, the bounds of tasteless have just been broken. |
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