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In reply to the discussion: So...if those that attacked in Paris aren't "real" muslims, and KKK isn't "real" christians [View all]RussBLib
(10,611 posts)18. Popey says they are "deviant"
I'll bet that comment will go over really well with those who cannot be criticized.
Pope Francis on Monday denounced the religious fundamentalism that inspired the Paris massacres and ongoing Mideast conflicts, saying the attackers were enslaved by "deviant forms of religion" that used God as a mere ideological pretext to perpetuate mass killings.
In his annual foreign policy address to Vatican-based ambassadors, Francis called for a unanimous response from the international community to end "fundamentalist terrorism" in the Mideast. And he called for Muslim leaders in particular to condemn "extremist interpretations" of their faith that seek to justify such violence.
"Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext," he said.
Original here.
Since I never go into that "other room" I don't see the kind of stuff that a lot of you discuss here. I consider it a form of torture. Na ga da, as Bush I might say.
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So...if those that attacked in Paris aren't "real" muslims, and KKK isn't "real" christians [View all]
Heddi
Jan 2015
OP
I know. The pretzel logic and mental gymnastics that they have to go through is nothing short of an
PeaceNikki
Jan 2015
#7