The Christian Right Loves to be at War


A retired professor of religion is especially annoyed at other Christians who have the view, "All religions have some good in them" or "All religions are basically the same." Christians are the only ones right about morals, sin and the hereafter he seems to say. He urges Christians to stop saying good things about other faiths. 

Certainly, there are branches of the major faiths that are criminal. Just now, there are reports of Hindus killing Christians in India. This, however, does not make Hinduism a worse religion. It just means there are criminals among those in the faith.

One of the things that really gets the link author angry is ridicule of Christianity that is occurring in Europe and in the U.S. That something so deeply felt by believers should be ridiculed by others is wrong he believes. 

Yet, he seems to justify that those who do not believe in invisible beings, life when we're dead, the dead coming back to life and the revelations received only by believers must receive solumn respect. The same respect is not due other religions or no religion. 

The link author, a Catholic, is annoyed at parents who not only allow but approve interreligious marriages of their adult children. Some of his fellow Catholics view other faiths as legitimate religions but merely different from the real church, Catholicism. 

Until we can all learn from some verifiable source there is a god, there is sin and there is an afterlife, proof of the best religion, or of any religion, remains in the field of mythology.

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