The difficulty, of course, is that the incessant claim by PR sources and the news media that there is fighting between Muslims and Christians is unfounded in reality. Muslims do not fight with Christians, and Christians do not fight with anybody. The people doing the fighting are something else entirely, and care not a whit what the books they hold over their heads may say.
How does it help to preach thus to the choir when, to stretch an already overstretched piece of terminology, the warmongers are every day perpetrating media genocide on the faithful?
Sadly, of course, we must also question the notion that "Muslims and Christians together constitute over fifty percent of the world." I mean to say, what proportion of that 50% ever give five minutes' thought to the philosophies of their respective prophets?
We, and by 'we' I mean absolutely everyone, have to learn to stop listening to liars. I wish I had a plan for how, but I don't.
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Date: 2010-01-05 07:09 pm (UTC)How does it help to preach thus to the choir when, to stretch an already overstretched piece of terminology, the warmongers are every day perpetrating media genocide on the faithful?
Sadly, of course, we must also question the notion that "Muslims and Christians together constitute over fifty percent of the world." I mean to say, what proportion of that 50% ever give five minutes' thought to the philosophies of their respective prophets?
We, and by 'we' I mean absolutely everyone, have to learn to stop listening to liars. I wish I had a plan for how, but I don't.