Thanks to Minty for the link

[url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9232269/Gay-marriage-Pope-representatives-calls-for-Catholic-alliance-with-Muslim-and-Jewish-groups.htmlPope's representative calls for an alliance of churches to oppose gay marriage[/url

The sooner we distance the legislature from this bunch of nutters, the better.

The majority are, yes.

Just as it's not a majority of Christians (or even fundamentalist Christians) who have taen to harassing staff and patients at clinics that carry out abortions in the UK.

One of the questions, though, is about what seems to be a rise in fundamentalism, across religious groups, in recent years.

This is what I don't understand, how can you be peaceful and follow these scrips?

How can a religion that demands pain and suffering ,weather in this life or the next, be peaceful?

The rise is actions against each others rise, they both have prophecies.

Well that covers all the 'big three' Abrahamic religions, then.

The [iOld Testament[/i, which Judaism, Christianity and Islam all accept, is full of violence and calls to violence.

It's always a question of interpretation – but the more fundamentalist the believer, the more they will pick bits and pieces of the really unpleasant stuff to claim is true. So you'll have people using 'an eye for an eye' as a justification for capital punishment, for instance.

All religious people play pick and mix with their holy texts.

Aye, even though Jesus' mwords are all about peace and love and never encouraged any smiting.
That's what I don't "get" about Christianity, it accepts stuff that Jesus reportedly spoke out against (e.g. "Love thine enemy" and the Good Samaritan).


Christians ..."An eye for an eye" when it suits them one way and "Turn the other cheek" when it suits them another way.