Hi! Hope I don't seem rude here. Just my 1.8 cents on your last comment about why folks don't look for religious meaning if the killer was Judeo-Christian.
That's probably because Christianity doesn't promote killing others. Rather the opposite. So when somebody drowns their kids, or a group of zealots drinks the kool-aid under the guidance of their psychotic pseudo-guru, and the killer/dead try to purport that "God told me to" ("God" being the Christian version)- Christians don't buy it. It's not in their book.
Ignorance of the intent and content of other's beliefs does create frequent unjust bias- like the immediate assumption that whatever ritual this ghastly man did in his back yard was "Satanic." The neighbors didn't know what he was doing, it was unfamiliar, and they weren't originally curious enough to ask about it. However, people can't know the intent/content of every other faith than their own. There's a few they should know more about- especially when that religion is a threat to everything we- in this country- hold sacred (liberty, justice, equality, human rights, etc.). But every congregation, coven, cabal? Ain't gonna happen, and doesn't need to.
So, with Christianity being the biggest religion around these here parts...they don't look at Christianity as the religious meaning, because they already are familiar with it's intent/content and know that it doesn't promote murder. But, as with any religion, it can be twisted for negative intent, even if it completely forbids that intent. Including paganism.
For the record- no, I'm not a Christian. Or a pagan. Or anything else- including an athiest.
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Re: Did you see?
Date: 2007-05-03 15:06 (UTC)That's probably because Christianity doesn't promote killing others. Rather the opposite. So when somebody drowns their kids, or a group of zealots drinks the kool-aid under the guidance of their psychotic pseudo-guru, and the killer/dead try to purport that "God told me to" ("God" being the Christian version)- Christians don't buy it. It's not in their book.
Ignorance of the intent and content of other's beliefs does create frequent unjust bias- like the immediate assumption that whatever ritual this ghastly man did in his back yard was "Satanic." The neighbors didn't know what he was doing, it was unfamiliar, and they weren't originally curious enough to ask about it. However, people can't know the intent/content of every other faith than their own. There's a few they should know more about- especially when that religion is a threat to everything we- in this country- hold sacred (liberty, justice, equality, human rights, etc.). But every congregation, coven, cabal? Ain't gonna happen, and doesn't need to.
So, with Christianity being the biggest religion around these here parts...they don't look at Christianity as the religious meaning, because they already are familiar with it's intent/content and know that it doesn't promote murder. But, as with any religion, it can be twisted for negative intent, even if it completely forbids that intent. Including paganism.
For the record- no, I'm not a Christian. Or a pagan. Or anything else- including an athiest.