In a fair Debate Catholicism Loses
Posted on November 10, 2009 03:06 PM
The Intelligence Squared Debate aired 7 Nov 2009 on BBC World. The question: Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world?
Muslims would like infidels to accept two mutually exclusive notions: one, that Islam is a sister religion to Christianity and Judaism because the Quran is based on the Torah and the Gospels; and two, that the Torah and the Gospels that exist today are corruptions of the original holy texts.
Every week I get an email asking me how I can write that Islam promotes savagery and brutality when in fact Christianity is guilty of many evils yet I say nothing.
I have a problem with people who think that 'God rains down fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest' whenever an Earthling does something wrong. We are an insignificant species on a small planet in an equally small solar system, only one of 400 billion other solar systems in a small galaxy, only one out of 100 billion other known galaxies in a universe that is easily one tiny universe out of trillions of others. We are like ants in Africa ignorant of all the other anthills outside own little square foot of sand. I have no doubt there are millions of planets just like ours and shit happens on them because it just does and for no other reason.
Wouldn't it be ironic if some mother in China is telling her children: "Enjoy Christmas, my little ones, as much as you can, for there are children in America who are starving to hear the words, "Merry Christmas!"
So what's all the buzz about Muhammad al-Mahdi, August 22nd, and our favorite raving lunatic President of Iran?