Any intentional slight against a personality or ideal that others hold sacred is cruel and unnecessary.- Any religion that cannot absorb intentional slights has some serious self-examining to do.
- A free society is filled with both.
- Those outside a free society cannot imagine what this freedom is like and may refuse to believe it exists.
- Sensitivity to those slighted seems to be prompted as much by fear as by sympathy.
- 2,000 years ago, the particular deity I worship was reviled, flogged, spat upon, nailed naked to a cross, and stabbed with a sword. He died that way while his family and friends and strangers watched. There is a certain humility and peace one develops when dwelling on that.
That is my opinion on the anti-Islam video causing demonstrations in the Middle East.
I haven't watched the video.
One of many stories, if you're not following it: WP: More protests break out in Muslim world as U.S. appeals for calm >
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Started: 2012-09-13
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