@Yuri: "I don't believe that interFAITH dialogue is possible because there are totally conflicting views on what constitutes a particular faith."

Quite so. These days 'interfaith' initiatives invariably mean one of two things: either a nice tea party for all our Imaginary Friends -- preferably at the taxpayer's expense -- or a temporary truce between warring tribes while they confer on how best to take out their common enemy, the atheists.

Dear runner,

I told the truth. Christianity has given a sense of righteousness to the imperialists and murderers. The truth hurts.

Good people do good things. Bad people do bad things. For good people to do bad things it takes religion. Possibly all religions operate that way, but Christianity seems most effective at it.

May you open your eyes to the beauty of reason, and reject superstition.

I don't give a damn about organised religion; interested people should read Sam Harris's critique of Islam in The End of Faith and his critique of Christianity in Letter to a Christian Nation.

Every human has a capacity and need for faith in accordance with his and her personal circumstances and nature. Organised religion is the antithesis of that fundamnetal human attribute. Organised religion denies the individual nature of faith and distorts it into the corporate structure of the particular organised religion.

One of the great developments of humanity has been the secular state which disenfranchises the essential tyrrany of organised religion. The formerly oppressive Christian church, in all its forms, has been largely dismantled in terms of its insidious influence.

However, Islam is a huge threat to modernity and the individual rights based secular Western societies. Islam has festered in no small part due to the pernicious influence of left ideology and its emasculation of Western democracy through elitism and an inability to recognise that relativism does not preserve rights but destroys them.

Islam needs to be opposed at every level, not only because of its barbaric values which include eschatology and extreme intolerance but because it is atavistic, at every level. Islam literally represents a return to humanity's primitive past. The idea that there should be a dialogue with it is both impossible and grotesque.

davidf

'May you open your eyes to the beauty of reason, and reject superstition.'

No your reason incorporates the total misrepresentation and twisting of character. I suggest your superstition that this world came about from nothing is far more irrational than what you consider mine.

inter faith..*
in what..the common point

*god*
just glod..{regardless of the prophet/messenger or text]
drop creed/greed..get back to god[who needs no son]..who is with/in us all

the holy spirit[who's true sign is life
for he lives enthroned in our heart

christ came not to found a religion
but to unite the children of the father BACK TO IT BEING ABOUT GOD

the GOOD of god
not the judge[jesus refuted 'rerserction/judgment days']
drop the lies..athiests need to push harder..so you lot can get over to the basics

if its not about god
its materialistic..[a rite of men..not a way to grace/mercy[good]...god

there is not one speck of bad in god
he dont judge is..thats the santa clause
satan/claws...its as easy as loving other

doing charity for other
is giving back good to the only good [god]

all ahhhhh*

ye shall call him
emmanuel;..god with{in} us {all}...

who is christ but the messenger/savious..son of good
do you not see now even the christs house is divided

but did he not say
i go to buld you a room in our fathers house

not a new house
grow up...there is no just war

HOW DOES ANY DEATH..glorify the life giving good?
the god of life/charity..not creed/greed threat or fear

@ one under god

Obvious troll is obvious troll.