Dear Mr. Farah,
regarding your article on Marriage found online at http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42749 you stated; "As long as the Christian faith remained dominant in America, the minority of non-believers would have little to worry about. Christians didn't believe in forceful conversions. They didn't believe in imposing their convictions on others. They believed in tolerance. They believed they would triumph because their civilization would be a shining city on a hill that no person in their right mind would want to destroy."
Are you serious? Have you actually read any history at all? How did these tolerant Xtians treat Native Americans, or Hawaiians? Did their tolerance extend to witches or do you also believe that we should "not suffer a witch to live" and, if so, how do you spot a witch and how should they die? Perhaps these examples can be rationalized as statistically insignificant aberrations, as they so often are when discussing slavery; the myriad end-of-the-world prediction sects; bookburnings; lynchings; the wacky pentecostal practices of speaking in tongues, faith healing, snake handling, exorcism; genital mutilation; the abhorrence (and inevitable addiction) of human sexuality -- all aberrations I'm sure: many which are practiced today by millions of "tolerant" Xtians in America alone.
When exactly did this "shining city on a hill" (a reference to pagan Rome if I'm not mistaken) exist in America?
Its tempting to view history through the smoky narcotic haze of an idealized past that never existed. It's easy to castigate radical fundamental Muslims for their irrational extremism (which I applaud you for), easy to lambaste liberals for their illogical dogma's and no challenge at all to smote splinters from the eyes of unbelievers everywhere -- but can you turn a critical eye on your own beliefs? Can you spot the flaws in your own logic? Have you ever condemned Benny Hinn, Oral Roberts and the throng of greedy televangelists serving themselves to the pocketbooks of god's flock? Ever dismissed the anti-medicine, prayer-only Christian Scientists; the anti-blood transfusion beliefs of the Jehovah's Witnesses; the bogus "miracle of transubstantiation"; bookburning; wars in the name of god, etcetera ad nauseam?
No? Then perhaps that Xtian "shining city on a hill" is just another example of unassailable, man-made beliefs that put 'men's hearts on fire and their brains on ice'.
Sincerely,
Jeff S
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