Let There Be PEACE

REALLY, Let It Be.

Stop fighting. Stop the war, Stop blowing up churches in Egypt and Iraq. Stop It. It proves nothing but that you are a nutjob- a really bad one.

Christians have no right to fight because Jesus took the sword out of Peter's hand when he was trying to decapitate a roman solider arresting him. Violence is not approved conduct. Not acceptable. Put away your knives. And guns, and assault rifles, and intercontinental ballistic missiles.

And why are you attacking houses of worship?
Religious tolerance is enshrined in our statutes and Constitution. We have something called Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and 'religious discrimination' is actionable- meaning you can sue for it here and get monetary damages if you, for example lost a job due over insubordination for adhering to your religious days off for example or engaging in your preferred worship.
You cannot fire an orthodox Jewish person for not working on Saturday if they prefer being in Shul. You cannot fire a Christian for needing to take off Christmas Day. (note to Congress/Sentate- no one should have to work through Christmas Eve if they don't want to- that's when they have to bake cookies for Santa and his reindeer and clear out the chimney!)

This violence against Christians is obviously really bizarre to us in the US where we enjoy freedom of worship as a predominantly Christian country (sorry to those self-annointed atheists but we are hugely majority Christian of all denominations, with respectable Jewish numbers as a strong minority religion). Around other parts of the world however the persecution of Christians seems something of a national sport reminiscent along pogrom lines. Why? Wierd? What did we do?

One suggestion I offer is that we try to be examples here of not persecuting Christians by other Christians, and not persecuting Muslims by demonizing them and demeaning them.
If we lead by example, we don't persecute doctrinal differences (within and without the catholic church) and we certainly don't demean or trivialize the devotion of Muslims here. A lot of damage is already done by the Bush pre-emptive crusades to justify the oil wars for the basest of motivations. We will be paying for that for milenia. But we can try to put it all aright now, can't we? We should at least try.

What did we do? We should at least look at that question and hear them. What did we do?

We are just a little country not even 300 years old yet. What did we do? Lets look at that. And look at how we can stop it. Start with Afghanistan. Soon. Really Soon.