On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Laura Hale <laura(a)fanhistory.com> wrote:
Your "religion" includes Roman Catholicism,
the Church of Latter Day
Saints, Christian Scientists, Watchtower Society, Russian Orthodox,
Anglican, Coptic, Quakers, and Amish?
Christianity, like Islam, has a lot of branches and you could say almost
anything about Christianity and some sects it would be true in and others it
would not. It would be accurate to say "Jesus Christ is not divine" and
"Jesus Christ is divine" and different sects hold this to be true. It would
also be true to say that Christianity is a driving force in the United
States towards pushing women out of work and into the home, is opposed to
women having access to birth control, and is opposed to abortion in all
cases, and that women should be totally subservient to men, and that if you
are moral, you don't need a doctor because Jesus will provide. The opposite
could also be said and be equally as true. If you want to see how two
opposite sides have aspects of the truth, look
at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Abortion/Evidence .
Okay, Ryan's statement was more sweepingly generalized than Carol's; I
still consider that such sweeping "more or less" statements about
other people's faiths have no place in a discussion forum such as this
one; and I refuse to be even remotely apologetic for defending the
religion of Martin Luther King, Ammon Hennacy, Ivan Illich, Dorothy
Day and Norman Thomas.
--
Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
and clothes."
-- Desiderius Erasmus