Highly recommend this article to everyone one here

[randman1]

The writer is an atheist, I believe, but accurately has a good sense of both Christian and Islamic doctrine and history. It's worth noting.

On a side note, he laudably credits the emergence of freedom of religion in this nation primarily to Christians rather than the Enlightenment, something less educated and informed secularists often have difficulty grasping.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/01/27/why-islam-is-more-violent-than-christianity-an-atheists-guide/

 

[Nuk'EM Heels]

This is the article hom-strum refuses to read. Too funny.

 

[randman1]

This is the article hom-strum refuses to read. Too funny.

He's like someone that looks at a great work of art and declares it's nonsense; that coloring books are better because they show you how to draw inside the lines, and yet he assumes that everyone else is doing the same. Just a bunch of people looking to be told what to think.

So of course he doesn't want to read something that might threaten such a simpleton's worldview. That would be risky.

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

As long as we're reading articles...

Read this one.

 

[randman1]

As long as we're reading articles...

Read this one.

I gave you an article with some real objective insight and content and you share that? An emotional word salad? Why don't you read the article I linked and tell me what you think about it, not feel about, but what you think?

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

Did it strike you as ironic at all to ask me for a thoughtful reaction to your article while in the same breath dismissing the one I posted as emotional word salad?

 

[randman1]

Did it strike you as ironic at all to ask me for a thoughtful reaction to your article while in the same breath dismissing the one I posted as emotional word salad?

Not at all. You ignored a very thoughtful and informative article. Why?

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

I thought not.

I didn't ignore it; I read it, just like you asked.

 

[strummingram]

Did it strike you as ironic at all to ask me for a thoughtful reaction to your article while in the same breath dismissing the one I posted as emotional word salad?

Salads are healthy. That one was very healthy.

 

[Heels Noir]

As long as we're reading articles...

Read this one.

Nice, intelligent article, JuleZ. Thanks for posting.

 

[Nuk'EM Heels]

As long as we're reading articles...

Read this one.

I read it and I'm willing to let folks in with one caveat - no terrorists allowed. We do whatever it takes to make sure that doesn't happen. If that means some good folks don't make it here, I'm good with that. We are a sovereign nation and have the right and the duty to live within secure borders and to determine who we allow to come here and live.