Are you saying banning murder and rape for Muslimns or allowing some to say Christmas in public are equally overt hate crimes?
I need some clarity here. . On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK then why are the incidents of religious hate crimes going up. > Reporting criteria has not changed. Its not just overt hate crimes > either. Incidents like banning sharia is a good example, or the > continual refrain about the war on religion/christmas etc. Or the > efforts to get creatinism in the public schools. Those last two whines > are classic. Thing is that the intolerance is increasing and not just > a minority. > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:28 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> I was referring to specific groups like the puritans or early mormons. >>> Those groups practiced a brand of religious intolerance that tried to >>> get it enshrined in the law. That strain of religiosity is far too >>> prevalent here. The recent firebombing of a mosque under construction >>> in Tennessee is a good example. The strain of deism and tolerance that >>> Jefferson and many of the other founders followed has mostly died out >>> in the US. >>> >> >> I disagree Larry. >> >> In the daily lives of the VAST majority of Americans across this country, >> religions get along just fine. Yes, there are fundamentalists and >> evangelicals who unfortunately have the means to get their intolerance >> messages to the masses. As such, it can be easy to assume that what you >> stated is true...that these idiots somehow outnumber the moderates...but I >> just don't think that is true. For every rare act of terrorism like the >> mosque bombing you cited, I could cite hundreds of thousands of >> interactions each day by people of different faiths that are completely >> civil and respectful. >> >> Religious tolerance is not dead in America.....but it does need defending. >> Every day. >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345320 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
