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Is It Me, Or Is There Rich Irony In Lord Carey Characterising Christians As An 'oppressed Minority'
...especially as the church has for hundreds of years, has being doing exactly that to gay people?
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Could this be a great example of 'well, now the shoe's on the other foot'?
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Could this be a great example of 'well, now the shoe's on the other foot'?
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"Lord Carey has every right to state that Christians are an oppressed minority, just has Gays are forever stating that they are also an oppressed minority. " The big difference AOG, is that the Christian Church was among those who sought to oppress gays and others, whereas (as far as I know) gays have never sought to oppress anyone. That's the irony.
11:20 Sun 31st Mar 2013
sp1814
/// Seeing as you've brought it up, I invite you to first spend time trawling through my previous posts to find evidence of me not criticising Islam's stance on homosexuality. ///
You attach far more importance to it than I do, I'm afraid I can't spend my time trawling through previous post to prove my point when I already know the result.
/// However, I am very disappointed that once again, you refuse to answer the question I have submitted, and have tried to twist this thread to your own agenda. ///
As you have similarly pointed out to Baldric, I don't believe that AB has a rule which commands you to answer every question.
/// I leave others to draw their own conclusions on this. ///
Campaigning for some support are we?
/// Seeing as you've brought it up, I invite you to first spend time trawling through my previous posts to find evidence of me not criticising Islam's stance on homosexuality. ///
You attach far more importance to it than I do, I'm afraid I can't spend my time trawling through previous post to prove my point when I already know the result.
/// However, I am very disappointed that once again, you refuse to answer the question I have submitted, and have tried to twist this thread to your own agenda. ///
As you have similarly pointed out to Baldric, I don't believe that AB has a rule which commands you to answer every question.
/// I leave others to draw their own conclusions on this. ///
Campaigning for some support are we?
"It is 'open season' for attacks on Christianity these days, both on AnswerBank, and also the media, but if anyone dares to attack Islam's stances on homosexuality, and female freedom, they are criticised for doing so."
This certainly isn't the case on the Answerbank. And even if it were, being criticised is nothing to be scared of - so what if people criticise you? If your beliefs stand up to argument, that shouldn't be a problem.
As for society at large, yes it's true that criticism of Islam is sometimes controversial. Personally, I don't feel it should be, but again I see no reason to fear controversy. The works of Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens -to give two examples of writers heavily critical of Islam - consistently do very well in the UK. As are several newspapers.
This certainly isn't the case on the Answerbank. And even if it were, being criticised is nothing to be scared of - so what if people criticise you? If your beliefs stand up to argument, that shouldn't be a problem.
As for society at large, yes it's true that criticism of Islam is sometimes controversial. Personally, I don't feel it should be, but again I see no reason to fear controversy. The works of Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens -to give two examples of writers heavily critical of Islam - consistently do very well in the UK. As are several newspapers.
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