tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109653649236707251.post669066592474130810..comments2023-05-06T01:20:48.902-07:00Comments on Uncle Cephas: In Reply to a Comment on "Disturbing Thoughts on the Religion of Peace"Kephahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109653649236707251.post-88434687519059747422009-12-29T17:44:47.131-08:002009-12-29T17:44:47.131-08:00John: I welcome questions.
Your question re Hind...John: I welcome questions.<br /><br />Your question re Hinduism is likely to provoke another blog entry sometime soon. Hindu tolerance depends on the Hindu. Remember, in 1947-48, Hindu mobs boarded trains, forced all the men to pull down their pants, and killed everyone who was circumcised. Not too long ago we had the spectacle in Orissa, I believe, of an Australian Christian missionary and his young son set upon and burned to death by a Hundu mob.<br />In Mahrashtra (Sp.?), the Shiv Sena people find even recent Buddhist proselytizing among low caste people to be a bit too much to stomach.<br /><br />Presenting Hinduism, Buddhism, and other such faiths as "tolerant" faiths is, as far as I can tell, a convenient stick with which some were and are wont to beat the Christian dog.<br /><br />As for keeping our powder dry it seems to me that it worked on Moammar Qaddafi while Cowboy George was in the White House. Further, Reagan's bombing of Libya way back when may have had something to do with the Algerian Salafists keeping their hands off Americans when they were merrily killing any French, Russian, or Yugoslav they could get their hands on. <br /><br />As for my comment on mass religious conversion, it all goes to show you that I do not believe that all religions are equally valid.<br /><br />More elsewhere and at other times. Thanks for your interest.Kephahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00999385775493831638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4109653649236707251.post-63658801235526270082009-12-29T14:08:26.796-08:002009-12-29T14:08:26.796-08:00You wrote, "a commenter (?)"
- I'm ...You wrote, "a commenter (?)"<br /><br />- I'm wondering if you feel I am taking improper license by including questions amongst my comments. I find doing so to be much more fruitful than sequential commentary, and I do hope you are open to my doing so in this and other responses to your postings. If otherwise, Peter, please say so.<br /><br /><br />You wrote, "Is (tolerance) a matter of recognizing the validity of the 'other's' point of view? The latter case, which seems to be what many are demanding, is in fact impossible."<br /><br />- I was under the impression that Hinduism, for example, saw other faiths as being alternative paths to truth, and worthy of respect. Am I incorrect?<br /><br /><br />You wrote, "I'm not really losing any sleep over the possibility of Islam being true."<br /><br />- Nor am I. If, therefore, we agree that Islam is a human social movement, why wouldn't it respond to cultural forces? Why would divine intervention be required? We in the U.S. can keep our powder bone dry, but this won't stop a terrorist from smuggling in a suitcase nuke. There's got to be a way to find common ground short of mass religious conversion.John Dakenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12504410768887381725noreply@blogger.com