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In reply to the discussion: If you don't think these people represent all Christians.... [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)silly dogmas behind, I invite them to think for their own damn selves. But the fact is that if any extremists are not welcomed by the mainstream, the mainstream has to deal with that, not those who are not in their silly 'Bigotry is Sacred' cults.
The mainstream Christians did nothing about Westboro for many, many years. European Muslims are doing a good job speaking out against violence and extremism this week. But Muslims, like Christians have far too often been slow and weak in response to those who in my view abuse each of those faiths. The people most offended by Westboro should have been 'the good Christians' but they really were not all that bothered. 'We don't approve of the style, but the content is God's word and we can't object to that' they'd say. They should have been the ones saying 'Not In Our Name' but they just let them attack hundreds of LGBT funerals and gatherings over many years, in all 50 States without taking any action at all.
So in Christianity and in Islam, one becomes a Christian or a Muslim by professing the faith. That's it. So if some who profess it are 'not real Christians or Muslims' that is entirely up to the 'real Christians and Muslims' to communicate to the world and to the imposters, hopefully long before the imposters do actual harm to others.
People of faith need to clean their own houses.