"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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A religion that can call for the death of a man who rights a
fictional book that expresses ideas it doesn't like...

Was it the "religion" that did the calling, or an extremist who
happened to profess that religion?

Recall what Pat Roberson called for just a couple of weeks ago?
What that Christianity talking, or Loony Pat?


Quite right to point out the distinction between any institution and some of
its more extreme adherents......or professed adherents, anyway.....but it's
also a good idea to remember that institutional philosophies change over
time. It wasn't so very long ago that the mainstream of both Christianity
and Islam, at least in some of their strongholds, were responsible for
carnage on a vast scale, both at home and abroad. And it's no mere accident
that their canonical writings are littered with martial themes. If the bulk
of Christians and Muslims today are peaceable (arguable, but by no means a
foregone conclusion) it's tough to see in what is done in their name, or in
words and actions of their spiritual leaders.......or in their own, for that
matter.

Wolfgang
who knows at least that he will never be butchered by an atheist acting on
orders from the highest authority.