Gee, it's not so nice when the shoe's on the other foot is it?

History can tell us much.

Ban the control of all religious beliefs from Imans, the clergy, mosques and churchs etc. Let a person’s faith be a personal thing between them and God or whatever they believe in.

When Imans, priests etc. control what millions of people believe & do then there is bound to be conflict in a country sooner or later between the government who should be in control and the clergy who are in opposing control of half the population or more.Why do people need to be led by the noses by men dressed in silly religious robes or whatever.

Have the guts to have your own relationship with a so called God if you must, but don’t blindly follow men dressed in robes with no more brains than a lump of wood in a lot of cases.

They even control your lives in the bedroom by not allowing contraception to be freely available. The Pope still declares
contraception to be a sin even in the face of certain death from aids and other transmitted diseases. Why should anyone tell anyone else
how many children they should have or what they should do in the bedroom.

Stop needing to be told what to do. Stand on your own two feet and take responsibility. Surely anyone with any common sense knows right from wrong without needing to be told by someone else.

The author does make one good point: in general, it's not those Christians who are persecuted who go around persecuting others. For one thing, they don't have the power to.

Moreover, we should have the simple human decency to speak out against injustice, no matter who it's committed against, and no matter what group the victims represent.

It's not persecution of Christians per se that's so very wrong: it's persecution, period.

'As for 'the bubs in the womb' -- they're not 'bubs', are they? Not really, no matter how much you like to pretend they are, '

no JonJ just like the Nazis denied Jews being human so abortionist twist science and language in redefining what suites their lifestyles.

This is obviously a very unfortunate situation.

Lets get one thing clear. Jesus was never ever in any sense a Christian - he was always and only a Jew, as were his direct disciples and those who associated with him, both male and female.

Nor did Jesus found even a minute smidgen of the religion about him, namely Christian-ISM. All of which was created by others, none of whom ever met Jesus up close and personal in a living-breathing-feeling human form. Jesus certainly could not have created any of the "death & resurrection" nonsense which became the centre-pole of the Christian delusion. Corpses are incapable of creating anything.

All of the contents of the above paragraph should be completely obvious to any sane person who has done their homework in 2012. Including any and every one who is deeply religious and Spiritual.

@Runner,

Explain to me how an amorphous peanut-sized blob of flesh with a brain the size of a lentil that looks more like a pink Martian than a human being is a 'bub'; then we'll debate about who's 'twisting language'.