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Religion is clearly a choice -- after all, people change religion all the time. So, why should religion be protected by hate crime legislation? It's not like being Baptist or Catholic is a permanent condition, like being Black or Aboriginal.

because they can't recruit?

Because he's the kind of guy who just can't stand to see people have fun?

The Catholic church excommunicated the mother of the little nine-year-old girl who was pregnant with twins, because the mother helped her obtain an abortion. The church excommunicated the doctors who performed the abortion.

The person they DIDN'T excommunicate is the step-father who molested her since she was six, and impregnated her by rape.

Mine included installing a new oven thermometer, shovelling the walks, making soup, and purchasing some Pepsi products (just because that Pepsi Max ad is so darned cute).

They act as if they really believe there's such a thing as a "homosexual agenda." They're going ballistic over that cute British Pepsi Max ad.

Maybe you're a Buddhist or Hindu, but probably not a Mormon or Jehovah's Witness. Here's an interesting graph the kind people at Pew have compiled for us.

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1105/darwin-debate-rel...

to any Shambhala Buddhists online.

And Joyful Solstice to everyone.

Seriously, if you're asking someone (in this case, God) to kill a person, I think that would be the crime of soliciting to the commission of a murder. Is this part of Christian belief?

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:VuRrygX506AJ:...

I've heard of intercessory prayer, but this is a new one on me.

Do you make this a regular part of your religious practice?

Do most Christians get together and decide who they're going to target?

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:VuRrygX506AJ:...

I just read an account of a visit to a "Hell House" that described a girl who had been raped by her father committing suicide. Since the other scenarios described sinful situations the teens had entered voluntarily, are you people suggesting that girls who have been raped by their fathers went looking for it? And that they consequently deserve to die by their own hands? Because Hell House sure isn't targeting the rapist fathers to show them the consequences of raping their daughters. So, is the point to blame the girls? Is it to direct them to kill themselves?

British spy satellites captured photos of Chinese soldiers being issued what looked monks' robes. The Chinese set up the Tibetans by dressing up Chinese soldiers as monks and sending them into the streets of Lhasa to "riot" to provide a pretext for even more severe oppression in Tibet.

http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/chinese-orchestr...

I am reading Stephen Prothero's book Religious Literacy, in which he states that Buddhists revere Jesus as a bodhisattva, Hindus as an avatar of God, and Jews as a great rabbi (p. 192). So, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists -- is this statement consistent with your experience? Is this something you've been taught about Jesus in your your religious tradition?

Please include your religion in your response. Thank you.

I am reading Stephen Prothero's book Religious Literacy, in which he states that Buddhists revere Jesus as a bodhisattva, Hindus as an avatar of God, and Jews as a great rabbi (p. 192). So, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists -- is this statement consistent with your experience? Is this something you've been taught about Jesus in your your religious tradition?

Celibacy, that is.

I keep seeing all these postings from Christians about homosexuality being unnatural and abnormal, even though there's plenty of evidence that it is natural and normal in many animal populations on earth.

Celibacy, on the other hand, sure isn't natural or normal.

So why no outrage against celibacy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxcyqeRc-4

It's a bit obscure, IMO.

"God, being completely holy and perfect, cannot abide any sinfulness near him."

C'mon. That statement makes your supposedly all-powerful deity sound like a total pu**y. Find a better rationalization for the existence of hell than "Ooh, God is such a fragile flower, he can't abide sinfulness near him."