One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Remember how shortly after 9/11 Jerry Falwell blamed Pagans, feminists and homosexuals for lifting the protection of God from America so that the attacks could happen?
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way — all of them who have tried to secularize America — I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”
Well, it is one day after the 7/7 London bombings and the editorials are starting to roll out. But one of the first I stumbled across was slightly different.
“Within London is a mosque which spews evil and filth, calling for death and for domination, as well as the deposition of English politicians. The evil that exudes form what should be a place of worship is paramount to the evil committed by blood cults worldwide. Satanic cults that share the Islamic militant need to spill innocent blood to appease their god, whether it be Allah or Satan the results are the same. No other God, whether it be Jehovah, Krishna, Buddha, and even the Pagan religions that espouse worship of Earth and elements calls for blood sacrifice of innocents to appease their object of worship.”
Modern Pagans are on the side of ‘freedom’ (at least in this editorial). I would say that this was a perspective from London, but the editorial writer is from Chicago. They still equate the whole of Islam with Islamic terrorists, so it seems like a one step forward, two steps back mentality. Maybe we will get to the point where we acknowledge that extremists, not religions, plant bombs.
Addendum: Get Religion talks about the war within Islam
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