Excluding the Left of course.

People of faith whose faith is deep LIVE that faith daily. They will try to move you to adopt their faith via their words and via the way they live their lives as an example. They are incredibly persistent because it is that important to them. They don’t make any noises about how worthwhile other religions are because they simply don’t believe it.

And that is entirely correct and fine.

But here is what they DON’T DO:
When someone leaves their faith for another faith, or adopts agnosticism or atheism, that other person is not to be stalked or murdered or suffer severe social retribution. People of deep faith will try to rescue the lost sheep via words and examples, but no Force is ever involved. In theocratic Muslim countries, you abandon your faith at extreme peril. If you’re not absolutely quiet and deceptive about it, your life is in danger.

If Ann Coulter actually advocated the forced conversion of people to Islam – oops, Christianity, sorry there! – she should be vilified. I doubt she went that far, since she’s usually very careful in her choice of words.

Any discussion of Ann Coulter’s strong defense of her faith should examine the forced conversion issue, and the fact that here in the West we simply don’t DO that.

See, here is the rub. In roughly the last 60 years things have improved dramatically. There are still people here in LA that remember when certain country clubs refused membership to Jews. There are still people who remember quotas and things of that nature.

At 38 I have two personal stories of antisemitism. I don’t believe that Xtians are out to get us. I think that the overwhelming majority are good people, but there is a lot of ignorance in the world.

And the concern about that ignorance and Coulter’s promulgation of part of an idea that was used to hurt us justifiably causes concern.

Notice that I am not calling her names or making wild accusations of antisemitism. Just saying that it is not unreasonable to pay attention to these remarks.

Modern Judiasm does not crown Jesus as God but it does accept his teachings and grants him “prophet” status — no small deal

No it doesn’t. Frankly there is no consensus on whether he actually existed or is just a compendium of thoughts put together by various people. His name never comes up other than in discussions such as this one.

Spain set their own policies in relation to religion during those times, which a person would know had they learned of the limitations placed upon Papal power back in the day.

For every propagandist, there is a context that must be dealt with, neutralized, or bypassed.

Thanks, I wasn’t talking about events eons ago. But since Mr. Dagon brought up the subject, I blogged in response to his base accusations against Christianity.

I would actually like to thank Mr. Dagon for his comments, without which I would have been at a loss for the subject of this week’s post. He provided me the topic and I’m grateful.

Here’s an excerpt:

It’s a constant source of oddity to see otherwise educated people deride Christianity. A commenter on Bookworm’s blog,Mr. Dagon, and many like-minded people relish in pointing out the horrors of Christendom in history but have they asked themselves the simple inauspicious question, Christianity is horrible in comparison to what?

What is scary about Islam is that it is stuck in the Dark Ages.