Sunday, October 18, 2009
Is Christianity More Benign Than Islam?
We really need a site about Christianity to parallel Little Green Footballs. Just think what LGF would say if Moslems did what the Christian Churches have been documented doing ("Churches involved in torture, murder of thousands of African children denounced as witches") by the LA Times - click the title for details.
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You must not have followed LGF lately. Charles Johnson has been hammering the right for supporting Creationism, as well as other numerous other issues. And as a matter of fact, he has linked to the story you mention here.
Thanks, Gideon. I'm glad to learn that at least one one anti-Islamic website is giving some time (although still, unfortunately, far from equal time) to theocratic and anti-Enlightenment tendencies within Christianity.
My beef with most anti-Islamic websites etc is that when they say Western Civilization, they do not mean what is objectively worthy of being defended: our Enlightenment-based global Human Civilization, of which rational people in India and Taiwan and South Korea are just as much a part as Americans and Europeans. Instead, what they mean when they say "Western Civilization" is Christendom - and their agenda is to recruit allies on Christendom's side in its conflict with Islam. It is sometimes worth pointing out that in its pure, unadulterated form, Christendom and Islam are evil twins, each as much in conflict with Human Civilization as the other.
Where this hits the ground is that if America follows the Ominous Parallels, and hyperinflation (already started) is followed by democratic totalitarianism, that totalitarianism is much more likely to be Theocratic (or Theo-Socialist) than simply Socialist, or even National-Socialist. And the real threat of Islam will be used, just as the real threat of Communism was used by National Socialists, as a propaganda rationale for repression and war. In America, at least, the threat of totalitarian Islamic theocracy is far less imminent than the threat of totalitarian Christian theocracy. And so I think that it is high time to give the crimes of Christendom at least equal time with the crimes of Islam.
Adam,
By all means; let us critique Christianity at its root. Nevertheless, we should be careful about alienating liberal Christians. They are a good bulwark against the theocratic fundies. We also have a much better chance of reaching them.
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