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Via The Christian Left on Facebook. This really gets at the heart of the matter. It is the point that is made well in the Biblical story of Gideon, even though it is forgotten in much of the Bible as well. If a deity is offended, that deity can fight his or her own battles. In claiming to \u201cstick up for\u201d a god, you are implicitly indicating\u00a0the deity\u2019s weakness. That\u2019s why violence in the name of a deity, far from honoring that deity, is an admission of the deity\u2019s impotence.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via The Christian Left on Facebook. This really gets at the heart of the matter. It is the point that is made well in the Biblical story of Gideon, even though it is forgotten in much of the Bible as well. If a deity is offended, that deity can fight his or her own battles. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":28075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[3675,5722,13394],"class_list":["post-28073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamentalism-religion","tag-fundamentalism-religion","tag-jihadists","tag-violence"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Contradiction of Fundamentalism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Via The Christian Left on Facebook. This really gets at the heart of the matter. 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