On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Laura Hale <la...@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 _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
