Is identity politics a stalking horse for special-interest totalitarian groups such as those promoting Shari'a ? If it's okay for one group, then others hop in for their legitimate 'share'. Just wondering.

On the blatantly self-serving notion of 'only As can write about As', I wonder where that would leave Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Chaucer, Boccaccio, etc ? Who would be in Dante's Inferno ? Who would write 'Moll Flanders' ? And what would Dickens be allowed to write about by the NTP (New Thought Police) ? Contemptible rubbish rationale.

But I disagree, Peter, about 'truth' - of course 'something IS 'out there', otherwise Daffy Duck or the Coyote would just keep running out into space: there IS a reality. We may not ever find it, as Popper says, but we can get closer and closer, and in any case, in our ordinary daily lives, we run with SOMETHING, as we must.

But I do agree that Christianity is one major root for the recognition of the universality of human beings, their commonalities, their shared rights and responsibilities, and thus a major pillar in our hard-won Enlightenment-based value-system. As such, it is vastly more progressive than the backward values of any tribal or totalitarian system, including Islam.

Joe

This writer is why I cannot have a bar of religion. Why the dickens an Indian woman would know more about curry than any other ethnicity I do not know but the author stereotypes them anyway.
This nonsense can go on and on but not to anyone's real benefit. I would point out that all this nonsense can be used against you dicks as by you. I see it as my duty to now complain endlessly. Email so I have a record and complain about the complaints not being properly attended to. I think when the money runs out we will have to just start behaving like adults again.

"There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus."

How true!

Identifying with that which we are not, is a disease, a spiritual malady, so given that we are all one in Christ Jesus, anyone who seduces us to identify with being, say, "man"; "woman"; "gay"; "lesbian"; "Left", "Right", "Australian"; "Indian", "victim", "human"; or "Christian" - is guilty of inflicting a spiritual wound on us.

//given that we are all one in Christ Jesus//

I'm not.

«I'm not.»

Hear, Hear, O Toni, what a humble man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z861YAJahkQ