Reply #42: slavery was ok until we stopped... then apartheid was wrong...

[happygoluckytoyou]

torture was wrong (per the USA) until we found a reason or fear to say it was ok under certain circumstances OR change the definition of torture to not include waterboarding--- it any THEY did it to our soldier, i guess it becomes torture again?

certainly by the definition of EQUAL we can never say that religons are EQUAL... nor can we say that any religon stays "the same" through time
--- slavery, stonings, witch trials, the spanish inquisition, the crusades, sacrafices--- religon and followers go through phases

in the interest of fairness, i think we can say that people justify their actions by religon

IS ABORTION KILLING A LIFE... and there is the question--- depends upon definition of a life, and your definition depends upon your religon or lack of
(which is in itself a belief system) including science as a religon

WHAT WE CLAIM TODAY WITH CERTAINTY... WHEN QUESTIONED LATER... religon changed to "fit" the circumstances

without doubt TODAY in countries with a heavy population of Muslim FUNDAMENTALISTS... we find the religon brutal

i am not a "self-hating" american, and clearly in some areas we are quite advanced and civilized compared to other countries
but by the same measure we are not perfect, nor even close, maybe just closer than the other guys