By now, we've all heard about the horrific acts that happened in Norway over the weekend. What a deplorable loss of life. The fingers are all coming out as well as everyone trips all over themselves to point the blame at this group or that group. We do know that he belonged to a xenophobic group (right wing) that was afraid of Muslim immigration since the Muslims would all come and over-run the country and make everyone submit to Sharia law. And, he's not the only person afraid of this happening.
This is exactly why we need to have a secular government that keeps a strict separation of church and state. Not only does it protect the poor Xians from Sharia law, but it ensures that such will not happen. Of course, ironically for the Xians that want to enact a Xian government to keep out the Muslims (move to Iran if you want to see a theocracy in action) the best defense is also what keeps them from imposing their religion upon the rest of us. Only when all of our rights to freedom of religion (and freedom from religion) are honored will all of us be truly free.
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Update: This post deserves a serious shout-out.
2 comments:
HI,
I saw your comments on GetReligion.org, the right-wing site that I occasionally monitor. I thought you might be interested in this article, "Confessions of a Blog Addict. Or Why I Love to Hate GetReligon.org and FamilyScholars.org" at glbtq.com, which gives some information about its funding. Here is the url: http://www.glbtq.com/sfeatures/confessionsofablogaddict.html
Jay,
Thank you for bringing that to my attention (I guess something good did come of my reading that blog and arguing with those idiots over there). When I moused over the "Philanthropist" link and saw "Roberta Green" I didn't make the link to the Dominionists. Now I want to try and disseminate this information far and wide.
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