Reply #32: VERY important links, thank you!

[Withywindle]

Although now I kind of wish I hadn't read that about Martha Coakley and the SRA bullshit.

That's a digression, though. The point that I think is important here is that Christianity started out as a progressive religion of the people, but lost that moral high ground the first time it became a religion of the imperial state that oppressed others and used the full force of the Roman military to push it down peoples' throats. (Constantine I, 272-337 AD). Jesus wept, indeed. He's been weeping for about 1700 years.

Let various religions BE, learn about them, ans respect them. It's a huge world out there, and religions' legitimacy is not determined by whether or not they came out of a relatively tiny region in the Middle East within a relatively tiny time frame.