They were politically astute empire-builders who understood that treating people with equal dignity made their domination of said people impossible. They were aided and abetted by Jewish authorities who likewise didn't want to see their own authority questioned.
The whole Sermon on the Mount is seriously radical social philosophy.
It makes no sense to condemn the millions for the acts of the hundreds, or even of the thousands. When someone suggests that Muslims are by definition violent and we therefore have the right to persecute and kill them, we are the ones who sound like the fanatics, and act like them too. Suppose we make exceptions for forced conversions. Can you say "Spanish Inquisition"?
If you want to measure human behavior by numbers, I leave you to it. Maybe I can dig up the historical analyses from the early 1970s declaring, based on the numbers, that slavery wasn't that bad.
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The Romans were not religious fanatics.
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- Little Mosque on the Prairie
- re: Little Mosques Everywhere is what they aim for.
- re: Little Mosques Everywhere is what they aim for.
- I don't get the joke. Maybe you could explain it to me. (n/t)
- No, sorry. (n/t)
- You knew the question was a set-up, didn't you?
- Is their clever juxtaposition too easily interpreted as negative?
- Let me take a shot at it.
- I think their joke is more juvenile than you suggest.
- re: I think their joke is more juvenile than you suggest.
- THANK GOD WE dont start wars.... (n/t)
- All insult humor is name-calling.
- No, just read the news.
- Naturally. If one white man shoots someone, does that make white men murderers?
- If one white man shoots someone, it is usually for isolated and unique reasons.
- Ah. You must have missed Ireland (Christian on Christian) & the ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo (Christian on Muslim).
- Numbers
- Yes, let's talk about racial violence.
- Well, religion is as religion does, eh?
- Ah. You must have missed Ireland (Christian on Christian) & the ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo (Christian on Muslim).
- If one white man shoots someone, it is usually for isolated and unique reasons.
- Naturally. If one white man shoots someone, does that make white men murderers?
- No, just read the news.
- I also think religious-oriented tv programs have no place in an educated society
- I think their joke is more juvenile than you suggest.
- Let me take a shot at it.
- No, sorry. (n/t)
- I don't get the joke. Maybe you could explain it to me. (n/t)
- Were the prieviews really religious? The clip I heard on the radio was not. (n/t)
- re: Little Mosques Everywhere is what they aim for.
- re: Little Mosque on the Prairie
- I heard excerpts of this show on Fresh Air
- re: Little Mosques Everywhere is what they aim for.