On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Laura Hale laura@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.