Steve Benson for February 20, 2015

Why don’t we hear:

Timothy McVay – Christian extremistCliven Bundy – Christian extremistCraig Hicks – Christian extremist

The label is accurate.

The rider must have gone blind from overuse of his FOX brand virtual reality glasses.

Why not ignore both sides and just read a regular newspaper or the local news cast? Why do you need a blatantly partisan pundit to tell you how you should feel? Stick to the facts and form your own opinion.

yeah…right…those pesky Christians are out there every day beheading people…crucifying people…raping 9 year old girls….and removing peoples organs to be sold…absolutely accurate….NOT!!!!…………….typical libs telling lies……by the way…the crusades were to take back the lands that the muslims had taken by force…but, truth does not matter to libs.

I don’t expect to change any minds, but just to get this on the record — I’m a non-religious leftie, but I have no objection to to people who are religious and I have no objection to people who are not religious, so long as they all behave decently. I was brought up in an anti-religious household; my parents believed that organized religion of all sorts was historically a bad thing. When I got to be of an age to be making my own associations and forming my own ideas, I fell in with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who trained me, and I worked with them for a while, and went to jail a few times. Then I worked with some people from the Catholic Worker in a soup kitchen in Washington, D.C., and later on I had close associations with people from the Mennonite Central Committee. I never became religious myself, but I developed a tremendous respect for the way the people I worked with lived their religion. I’ve also seen the bad side of religious extremism; I knew some people who died in Jonestown. So I don’t condemn religion, the way my parents did. A good person who is religious will be good, a bad person who is religious will be bad. Good people will make their religion into something good, bad people will make their religion into something bad.

lonecatvery well stated thank you.

“Extremist Christians only observe the parts of the bible that fit their needs and desires to control other people.”.To a large extent (but getting less so every day BUT SLOWLY) it is absolutely correct. If I remember my New Testament reading correctly, it makes no mention of homosexuality, which the Old Testament does. The same old testament that says we shouldn’t eat pigs, but golly gosh darn it, I like bacon and therefore am not going to wag a judgmental finger at gays..That and because I’m not free from sin, so I’m not throwing any stones either….

At echoraven,The first chapter of Romans seems to me to be talking about homosexuality while the second chapter seems to be talking about those condemn it while practicing it. Also, it is ok to eat whatever kind of meat you would like to according to the 10th chapter of acts.

at newenglandah,re: specific passages;http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/tens-of-thousands-of-muslims-flee-christian-militias-in-central-african-republic/2014/02/07/5a1adbb2-9032-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html

Just want to say thanks, Steve, for once again getting it right.

Good Christians like Torquemada, who was the wind in Columus’ sails sending him to “convert” the natives he might find, or kill them and save their “souls”. Oh yeah, most brutal of the Inquisition too.

Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act, 2014:Life in prison for committing homosexual acts. They wanted to give the death penalty. …" three American Christians asserted that homosexuality is a direct threat to the cohesion of African families."-Wikipedia. Also have a look at all the anti-gay countries (Google it). Mostly based on some religious dogma including Christian. Russia for example.

I know. It’s sad how many folks are held enthralled by revelatory fables of mixed up magical fantasy, isn’t it?

^Or Jeb and Huckabee; “The Prince and the Pea Brain”.