On the Validity of Religion
January 31, 2006
Catholics, Baptists, Muslims…all religions that have been under scrutiny of late. OR continously.
Religion risks becoming cultish and without credibility when its critics are vacant from within its own ranks.
It seems this vacancy is terribly missing as religions become more fundamental.
You see this in Bible Thumping versions of Baptists. You this in Jehovah’s Witnesses (who many would argue is a cult), and the silence is deafening amongst Muslims.
You would think a Religion whose Public Relation players would have you believe that it is a peace loving faith, would put a stop to Jihad. To be insulted that their faith is being hijacked by fraudsters who claim to be peace loving Muslims. Inaction is by default responsibility and acceptance.
Germany to a great degree was guilty for Hitlers actions, if for no other reason but for their passivity. Their passivity allowed for Germany’s deriliction of justice and moral clarity.
But just saying you are something does not mean that you are. To the Muslim world:
“I cannot hear a word you are saying, because your actions speak so loudly”
KFI Los Angeles morning man Bill Handel is under fire from a Muslim civil liberties group-CAIR for comments he made earlier this month.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has demanded that Handel apologize and be disciplined for making fun of a stampede that killed hundreds of Muslims during an annual pilgrimage.
Although harsh by Handel, I would like to concentrate on his challenge that he has issued to CAIR as conditions for his apology.
Handel, who says CAIR has ties to terrorist organizations, says he will apologize if CAIR will issue the following three statements:
Handel told listeners that he doesn’t believe CAIR will comply. And of course it is a no brainer that he is right.
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